If It Were Not For

To All Apparent Beauties Blind, Each Blemish Strikes An Envious Mind.

Lose No Time; Be Always Employed In Something Useful.

Buy What Thou Hast No Need Of And Ere Long Thou Shalt Sell Thy Necessities.

Many Foxes Grow Gray But Few Grow Good.

I Know As Well As Thee That I Am No Poet Born It Is A Trade, I Never Learnt Nor Indeed Could Learn If I Make Verses-'tis In Spite Of Nature And My Stars I Write.