<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521781" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Do Not!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do not despair of man, and do not scold him, <br>Who are you that you should so lightly hold him? <br>Are you not also a man, and in your heart <br>Are there not warlike thoughts and fear and smart? <br>Are you not also afraid and in fear cruel, <br>Do you not think of yourself as usual, <br>Faint for ambition, desire to be loved, <br>Prick at a virtuous thought by beauty moved? <br>You love your wife, you hold your children dear, <br>Then say not that Man is vile, but say they are. <br>But they are not. So is your judgement shown <br>Presumptuous, false, quite vain, merely your own <br>Sadness for failed ambition set outside, <br>Made a philosophy of, prinked, beautified <br>In noble dress and into the world sent out <br>To run with the ill it most pretends to rout. <br>Oh know your own heart, that heart's not wholly evil, <br>And from the particular judge the general, <br>If judge you must, but with compassion see life, <br>Or else, of yourself despairing, flee strife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Stevie+Smith">Stevie Smith</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521781" data-title="Do Not! de Stevie Smith" data-description="Do not despair of man, and do not scold him, Who are you that you should so lightly hold him? Are you not also a man, and in your heart Are there not warlike thoughts and fear and smart? Are you not also afraid and in fear cruel, Do you not t..."></div> </div> </div>

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