To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
ALEXANDER POPEConceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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