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1040. CONFORMITY IS COMELY.
Conformity gives comeliness to things:
And equal shares exclude all murmurings.
And equal shares exclude all murmurings.
1041. LAWS.
Who violates the customs, hurts the health,
Not of one man, but all the commonwealth.
Not of one man, but all the commonwealth.
1042. THE MEAN.
'Tis much among the filthy to be clean;
Our heat of youth can hardly keep the mean.
Our heat of youth can hardly keep the mean.
1043. LIKE LOVES HIS LIKE.
Like will to like, each creature loves his kind;
Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind.
Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind.
1044. HIS HOPE OR SHEET ANCHOR.
Among these tempests great and manifold
My ship has here one only anchor-hold;
That is my hope, which if that slip, I'm one
Wildered in this vast wat'ry region.
My ship has here one only anchor-hold;
That is my hope, which if that slip, I'm one
Wildered in this vast wat'ry region.
1045. COMFORT IN CALAMITY.
'Tis no discomfort in the world to fall,
When the great crack not crushes one, but all.
When the great crack not crushes one, but all.
