Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
ALEXANDER POPEFor 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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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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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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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