But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.