There Is No Praise To Bear The

What! Would You Make No Distinction Between Hypocrisy And Devotion? Would You Give Them The Same Names, And Respect The Mask As You Do The Face? Would You Equate Artifice And Sincerity? Confound Appearance With Truth? Regard The Phantom As The Very Person? Value Counterfeit As Cash?

Malicious Tongues Spread Their Poison Abroad And Nothing Here Below Is Proof Against Them.

In Clothes As Well As Speech, The Man Of Sense Will Shun All These Extremes That Give Offense, Dress Unaffectedly, And, Without Haste, Follow The Changes In The Current Taste.

There Are Pretenders To Piety As Well As To Courage.

There Is No Praise To Bear The Sort That You Put In Your Pocket.