[calebm]

There's an interesting bible verse that I've never heard quoted in churches: "BE NOT OVERLY RIGHTEOUS, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time? It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them." (Ecclesiastes 7:16-18).

[prionassembly]

Kipling has this

    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting
    Or being lied about, don't deal in lies
    Or being hated, don't give way to hating
    And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.