“Man, pleis thy makar and be mirry, And sett not by this warld a chirry;”
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William Dunbar 4
Poet and civil servant 1460–1520Related quotes
“O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother;
where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.”
Worship, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“977. Beware of no Man more than thy self.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.”
English Proverbs (1659)
“Tell no man anything, for no man listens
Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.”
Hope, Faith, and Love (c. 1786); also known as "The Words of Strength", as translated in The Common School Journal Vol. IX (1847) edited by Horace Mann, p. 386
Context: There are three lessons I would write, —
Three words — as with a burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light
Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ now,
And gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow, —
No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, —
The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, —
Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,
The habitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one,
But men, as man, thy brothers call;
And scatter, like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all. Thus grave these lessons on thy soul, —
Hope, Faith, and Love, — and thou shalt find
Strength when life's surges rudest roll,
Light when thou else wert blind.
“1800. Make not a Jest of another Man's Infirmity. Remember thy own.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)