What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.

What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.

Others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches;
And most of sterling worth is what
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Others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches;
And most of sterling worth is what
Our own experience preaches.

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active
employment.

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active
employment.

Dull not device by coldness and delay.

Dull not device by coldness and delay.

Who gives to all, denies all.

Who gives to all, denies all.

Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?

Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?

Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.

Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.