| What's Ben |
What's Verse |
Bad Habits & Reform (1)
see also PROCRASTINATION, VICE and WARNING SIGNS. |
| The Wise and Brave dares own that he was wrong. [1751] | Brave Tarzan’s confessing
(To ape-like regressing). |
| The Wolf sheds his Coat once a Year, his Disposition never. [1755] | Each temperament:
Clay - in cement. |
| In a corrupt Age, the putting the World in order would breed Confusion, then e'en mind your own Business. [1758] | China's thin,
Don't butt in. |
Bad Habits & Reform (2)
see also PROCRASTINATION, VICE and WARNING SIGNS. |
To err is human, to repent
divine, to persist devilish.
[1742] | Adam resists?
Snake finds new twists. |
How few there are who have
courage enough to own their
Faults, or resolution enough
to mend them! [1743] | Fault -- to own,
Then disown. |
Bad Habits & Reform (3)
see also PROCRASTINATION, VICE and WARNING SIGNS. |
Who is strong? He that can
conquer his bad Habits. [1744] | Strength -- it undergoes
Habit's undertows. |
'Tis easier to prevent bad
habits than to break them.
[1745] | You would seed
Habit's weed? |
Be at War with your Vices,
at Peace with your
Neighbours, and let every
New-Year find you a better
Man. [1755] | Year's ending --
You mending? |
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