People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
—Goldsmith.
1380
MODERATION.
He that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.
—Cowper.
1381
THE CHARM OF MODULATION.
'Tis not enough the voice be sound and clear,
'Tis modulation that must charm the ear.