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Give thy thoughts no tongue,
nor any unproportioned thought his Act
be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast & their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel:
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatched; unfledg’d couragecomrade. 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 judgment
By Polonius, in Hamlet (TLN524-534), William Shakespeare
in University of Chicago MS 824, f. 113r

Neither a borrower nor a Lender be,
for loan oft loses both it self & Friend,
and borrowing dulleth the edge of Husbandry
This above all: to thine own self be true.
By Polonius, in Hamlet (TLN540-543), William Shakespeare
in University of Chicago MS 824, f. 113r