'Tis not enough your counsel still be true;
Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Essay on Criticism, Pt. III. A. POPE.
Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves,
Where manners ne'er were preached.
Twelfth Night, Act iv. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
He was the mildest mannered man
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
Don Juan, Canto III. LORD BYRON.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
King Henry VIII., Act iv. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes,
Tenets with books, and principles with times.
Moral Essays, Epistle I. A. POPE.
Plain living and high thinking are no more.
The homely beauty of the good old cause
Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence.
And pure religion breathing household laws.
Written in London, September, 1802. W. WORDSWORTH.
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Essay on Man, Epistle I. A. POPE.
MATRIMONY.
True Love is but a humble, low-born thing,
And hath its food served up in earthen ware;
It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand.
Through the every-dayness of this work-day world,
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