The troubled mind to change its native woes?
Or lead us willing from ourselves, to see
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Others more wretched, more undone than we?
This, books can do—nor this alone: they give
New views to life, and teach us how to live;
They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise;
Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise.
Their aid they yield to all: they never shun
The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone;