Oh, Blindness To The Future!

Education Forms The Common Mind.

Sure Of Their Qualities And Demanding Praise, More Go To Ruined Fortunes Than Are Raised.

Fondly We Think We Honor Merit Then, When We But Praise Ourselves In Other Men.

I Lose My Patience, And I Own It Too, When Works Are Censur'd, Not As Bad But New; While If Our Elders Break All Reason's Laws, These Fools Demand Not Pardon But Applause.

And Binding Nature Fast In Fate, Left Free The Human Will.