On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPEAll seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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Of 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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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This long disease, my life.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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