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The highest culture is to speak no ill, / The best reformer is the man whose eyes / Are quick to see all beauty and all worth; / And by his own discreet, well-ordered life, / Alone reproves the erring.
When thy gaze / Turns in on thine own soul, be most severe. / But when it falls upon a fellow-man / Let kindliness control it; and refrain / From that belittling censure that springs forth / From common lips like weeds from marshy soil.