\u201dThe wind sits in the shoulder of your sail<\/p>\n
And you are stayed for. There, my blessing with thee.<\/p>\n
And these few precepts in thy memory<\/p>\n
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,<\/p>\n
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.<\/p>\n
Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.<\/p>\n
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,<\/p>\n
Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel,<\/p>\n
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment<\/p>\n
Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware<\/p>\n
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,<\/p>\n
Bear \u2019t that th’ oppos\u00e8d may beware of thee.<\/p>\n
Give every man thy ear but few thy voice.<\/p>\n
Take each man\u2019s censure but reserve thy judgment.<\/p>\n
Costly thy habit [asusi] as thy purse can buy,<\/p>\n
But not expressed in fancy\u2014rich, not gaudy,<\/p>\n
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201dThe wind sits in the shoulder of your sail And you are stayed for. There, my blessing with thee. And …
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