There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
ALEXANDER POPEWhy did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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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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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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