The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
ALEXANDER POPEAll seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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