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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Alexander Pope

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Enemy Friendship Lost Ourselves Praise
Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Appearance Beautiful Hairs
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Hold Opinion Person
This long disease, my life.
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Life One Liner Perspective Science
Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Flower Needs One Liner Truth
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Myself Parents Poet Sin Writing
And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Air Walk Wings
Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Growth Lose Performance Reality Yourself
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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Fingers Greatness Hands Himself Joy Wild
Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Feeling Hide Mistake Myself Teaching
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Advice Deep Growth One Liner Tree Wisdom
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Ability Generousity Man Wisdom
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Education Fools Learning People Reason Time Understand
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Beautiful Improvement Nature
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Forget Men Wisdom
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Comfortable Employment Growth Live Old Young

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