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  to be captious; not unjustly fight; 'Tis to confess what's wrong—and do what's right?  undefined  " you well?" "Very well." "My draught did good." "It did no harm; for yonder it hath stood."  undefined  has done her part:—do thou but thine; Learning and sense let decency refine. For vain applause transgress not Virtue's rules: A witty sinner is the worst of fools.  undefined  Prior!—and is this, this all the fame The poet from the historian can claim? No; Prior's verse posterity shall quote, When 'tis forgot one Burnet ever wrote.  undefined  I walked by myself, I said to myself, And myself said again to me, Look to thyself, take care of thyself, For nobody cares for thee; Then said I to myself, and thus answered myself, With the self-same repartee, Look to thyself, or look not to thyself, 'Tis the self-same thing to me.  undefined  bodies are like shoes, which off we cast; Physic their cobbler is, and Death the last. 