“Earnest words must needs be spoken
When the warm heart bleeds or burns
With its scorn of wrong, or pity
For the wronged, by turns.
“But, by all thy nature’s weakness,
Hidden faults and follies known,
Be thou, in rebuking evil,
Conscious of thine own.
“Know’st thou not all germs of evil
In thy heart await their time?
Not thyself, but God’s restraining
Stays their growth of crime.
“Could’st thou boast, O child of weakness,
O’er the sons of wrong and strife,
Were their strong temptations planted
In thy path of life?”
When the warm heart bleeds or burns
With its scorn of wrong, or pity
For the wronged, by turns.
“But, by all thy nature’s weakness,
Hidden faults and follies known,
Be thou, in rebuking evil,
Conscious of thine own.
“Know’st thou not all germs of evil
In thy heart await their time?
Not thyself, but God’s restraining
Stays their growth of crime.
“Could’st thou boast, O child of weakness,
O’er the sons of wrong and strife,
Were their strong temptations planted
In thy path of life?”
WHITTIER
“We all have our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.”
GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]
“Generally speaking, the judging of others is the foul stain of social life.”
Baron BUNSEN
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