Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political (Classic Reprint)

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Grudge at what we want in ourselves. Why may we not think the poet meant them for detractors, which sprung of the teeth of Cad mus poisoned serpent? I am sure their ends may parallel; for they usually murder one another in their fame: and where they find not spots, they devise them. It is the basest office man can fall into, to make his tongue the whipper of the worthy man, If we know vices in men, I think we can scarcely shew ourselves in a nobler virtue, than in the charity of concealing them: so it be not a flattery, persuading to continuance. And if it be in absence, even sometime that which is true, is most unbeseeming the report of a' man. Who will not condemn him as a traitor to reputation and society, that tells the private fault of his friend to the public and depraving world? When two friends part, they should look upon one another's secrets, and interchange their keys. The honest man will rather be a grave to his neighbours fails, than any way un curtain them. I care not for his humour, that loves to clip the wings of a lofty fame.

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