Should You Feel Inclined to Censure
Author: Anon.
Composer: Varies by tune (see below)
Languages (29)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Cantonese (Romanized/Pingyam): [Unknown title]
- Chinese (Simplified): 勿批评过错
- Chinese (Traditional): 勿批評過錯
- Croatian: Kad uočiš greške tuđe
- Czech: Máš-li sklon hned druhé soudit
- Danish: Du, som dadler og fordømmer
- Dutch: Wiltt gij soms een fout berispen
- English: Should You Feel Inclined to Censure
- English Braille: ⠠⠩⠳⠇⠙ ⠠⠽⠳ ⠠⠋⠑⠑⠇ ⠠⠔⠉⠇⠔⠫ ⠞⠕ ⠠⠉⠢⠎⠥⠗⠑
- Fijian: Ke Ko Via Vakalewa Tu
- Finnish: Moittiako sinun täytyy
- French: Si l’envie nous prend de blâmer
- German: Willst du Richter sein auf Erden
- Greek: Να μην κρίνεις, να μην ψάχνεις λάθη
- Hungarian: Ha hibát akarsz találni
- Italian: Se ti senti di accusare
- Japanese: 人の過ちを
- Japanese (Hiragana): 人の過ちを
- Japanese (Kanji): 人の過ちを
- Korean: 남의 허물 비난 말라
- Latvian: Jūtot vēlmi citus tiesāt
- Mandarin (Romanized/Pinyin): Wù pīpíng guòcuò
- Norwegian: Du som klandrer og fordømmer
- Romanian: Nu-ncerca să vezi greșeala
- Russian: Не ищи ошибок в ближних
- Samoan: Pe ‘a Muimui Lou Loto
- Swedish: Är du böjd att hastigt döma
- Tongan: ʻOua te Ke Fakamaau
- Ukrainian: Хочеш ти когось судити
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Most common tunes for “Should You Feel Inclined to Censure”
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Appearances of “Should You Feel Inclined to Censure” over time
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1840 or earlier.
Public domain
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Sacred Hymns (Manchester Hymnal) (1863), no. 54.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. Should you feel inclined to censure Faults you may in others view, Ask your own heart, ere you venture, If you have not failings, too. Let not friendly vows be broken; Rather strive a friend to gain. Many words in anger spoken Find their passage home again.
2. Do not, then, in idle pleasure Trifle with a brother’s fame; Guard it as a valued treasure, Sacred as your own good name. Do not form opinions blindly; Hastiness to trouble tends; Those of whom we thought unkindly Oft become our warmest friends.
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