O Lord, Help Me Not To Despise

To Be A Man's Own Fool Is Bad Enough, But The Vain Man Is Everybody's.

It Is The Amends Of A Short And Troublesome Life, That Doing Good And Suffering Ill Entitles Man To A Longer And Better.

It Is A Coal From God's Altar Must Kindle Our Fire; And Without Fire, True Fire, No Acceptable Sacrifice.

They That Love Beyond The World Cannot Be Separated By It. Death Cannot Kill What Never Dies.

Were The Superfluities Of A Nation Valued, And Made A Perpetual Tax Or Benevolence, There Would Be More Alms-houses Than Poor, Schools Than Scholars, And Enough To Spare For Government Besides.