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Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion´d thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch´d, unfledg´d comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear´t that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice: Take each man´s censure, but reserve thy judgement. Polonius to his son Laërtes in Shakespeare´s Hamlet |
