Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPEOf all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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