Passions are the gales of life.
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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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This long disease, my life.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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