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CHARITY IN THOUGHT by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

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First Line: TO PRAISE MEN AS GOOD, AND TO TAKE THEM FOR SUCH
Last Line: TO GOD, THY CONSCIENCE, AND THE GRAVE.

To praise men as good, and to take them for such,
Is a grace, which no soul can mete out to a tittle; --
Of which he who has not a little too much,
Will by Charity's gage surely have much too little.

@3Humility the Mother of Charity@1

Frail creatures are we all! To be the best,
Is but the fewest faults to have: --
Look thou then to thyself, and leave the rest
To God, thy conscience, and the grave.



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