DISTRUST.
by Robert Herrick


TO safeguard man from wrongs, there nothing must
Be truer to him than a wise distrust.
And to thyself be best this sentence known :
Hear all men speak, but credit few or none.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 81.
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