Oh, blest with temper whose unclouded ray

Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day!

Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 257.

Most women have no characters at all.

Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 2.

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools,

Or if she rules him, never shows she rules.

Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 261.

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And mistress of herself though china fall.