<p>WITH rare exception, almost ev'ry one<lb/> Is wondrous apt his Neighbour's faults to see;<lb/> And yet, however evident his own,<lb/> To them he's blind- or thinks that only he<lb/> From imperfection and from fault is free.<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac146"/> A Hunchback here, brimfull of self-conceit,<lb/> Derides a fellow-Hunchback passing by;<lb/> And points to him, that ev'ry one they meet<lb/> May ridicule the man's deformity.<lb/> Yet he himself; the Jeerer, what is he?-<lb/> A crooked Dwarf, mis-shap'd from head to toe,<lb/> With boss behind of such enormity,<lb/> As though a mountain on his back did grow!<lb/> And what is Man, that he would censor be<lb/> Of what which Nature gave his fellow-man!<lb/> In what deriving from ourselves, are we<lb/> In aught entitled other men to scan?<lb/> Shall we assume in figures of our own<lb/> To reckon up another man's account!<lb/> And carp at him for flaws and faults alone,<lb/> When our own ledger shews no small amount!<lb/> To ev'ry man, we know to indicate<lb/> Wherein he fails-and-strange sagacity!<lb/> To make the most unerring estimate<lb/> Of what he is-and what he ought to be!<lb/> But on himself, who turns his eye? not one!<lb/> And though so keen our neighbour's humps to see,<lb/> We're blind to that upon our back alone,<lb/> E'e though that hump by far the greater be!<lb/> It was not thus, my friends, that we were taught<lb/> That practice sweet of Love and Charity,<lb/> By which the Man-God our Redemption bought,<lb/> In pity for our mortal frailty!<lb/> Look not in scorn upon thy brother's shape,<lb/> If nature chose to vary it from thine;<lb/> For though it may resemble more the Ape,<lb/> It may have Light within far more divine!<lb/> Turn thine eyes inward on thine heart, and se<lb/> What flaws are there, what seething germs of ill<lb/> That need thy care, left their malignity<lb/> Shall render thee one day more hideous still.<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac147"/> Who ridicules his neighbour's frailty,<lb/> Scoffs at his own in more or less degree:<lb/> Much wiser he who others' lets alone<lb/> And tries his talent to correct his own.</p> <p>AND why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest<lb/> not the beam that is in thine own eye? <lb/> Thou Hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou<lb/> see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.-Matt. vii. 3,5.</p> <p>QUI d'auntruy parler voudra,<lb/> Regarde soy; et il taira.<lb/> No ay quien sus faltas entienda,<lb/> Como las de su vecino.<lb/> Il n'y a personne qui reconnoit ses fautes,<lb/> Comme celles de son voisin.<lb/> Dal biasima altrui, che se stesso condanna.<lb/> Ziehe Dich selber bei der Nase.<lb/> Een ander heeft altyt de schult,<lb/> Geen mensch en siet syn eygen bult.<lb/> CRIMINA qui cernunt aliorum, nec sua cernunt,<lb/> Hi sapiunt aliis, desipiuntque sibi. OWENUS.<lb/> THERE are those who can see faults of others, but who cannot discern their<lb/> own.-These people are wise for others, and fools to themselves.<lb/> EST proprium stultitiae, aliorum vitia cernere; oblivisci suorum.-CICERO.<lb/> NIHIL turpius est convitio quod in auctorem recidit.-PLUTARCH.<lb/> OF all the causes which conspire to blind<lb/> Man's ering judgement, and misguided mind,<lb/> What the wea head with the strongest bias rules<lb/> Is Pride, the never-failing Vice of Fools.<lb/> POPE.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac148"/> <p>IN vaine thou mantles up this light of mine,<lb/> Thinking that no man shall perceive it shine.<lb/> But all in vaine, flame will it selfe bewray,<lb/> And through thy coat, by burning, make his way.<lb/> Who in his lower heart doth hurt conceale,<lb/> Hoping that nothing shall the same reveale,<lb/> He hides the torches of the hellish rout,<lb/> Which will at length with violence burst out:<lb/> Who doth conceive Orestes' impious thought,<lb/> It will ere long to furious fact be brought.<lb/> Dissemble what thou can'st, that inward sparke<lb/> Will burst forth into Light, though now its darke.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems. </p>

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The Hunchback Sees Not His Own Hump, but He Sees His Neighbour's

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A man with a large hump on his back points at a man with a small hump

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<p>THE HUNCHBACK SEES NOT HIS OWN HUMP, BUT HE SEES HIS NEIGHBOUR'S</p>

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