Of all the troubles mankind’s got
Some can be cured and some cannot;
If there is a cure, find it,
If not, never mind it.
-- Copied, author unknown
On a battered beauty.
Hair, wax, rouge, honey, teeth, you buy,
A multifarious store!
A mask at once would all supply,
Nor would it cost you more.
-- William Cowper (The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems)
To Demosthenes.
It flatters and deceives thy view,
This mirror of ill-polish'd ore;
For, were it just, and told thee true,
Thou wouldst consult it never more.
-- William Cowper (The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems)
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