Friday, July 24, 2009

True robbery

Good name is man and woman

Is the immediate jewel of their souls;

Who steals my purse steals trash: tis' something,

nothing;

'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;

But he that filches from me my good name

Robs me of that which not enriches him,

And makes me poor indeed.

W Shakespeare


Condemn not, judge not: not to man

Is given his brothers' faults to scan;

One task is thine, and one alone­ –

To search out and subdue thine own


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