We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise
O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!