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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.

Alexander Pope

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Education Fools Learning People Reason Time Understand
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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Comfortable Employment Growth Live Old Young
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Forget Men Wisdom
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Deep Education Learning Spring Wisdom
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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Company Friendship Learning Men Myself
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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Fortune Herself Honesty Independence Lose Worst
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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Dangerous Education Learning Money Wisdom
Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Growth Lose Performance Reality Yourself
Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Flower Needs One Liner Truth
Passions are the gales of life.
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Life One Liner Passion
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Best Brother God Himself Service
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Honesty Lie Lying Motivation Protection Worst
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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God Greatness Kind Men Study Wisdom
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Nature Strange Thinking Vice
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Friendship Guide One Liner Philosophy Yourself
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Happiness Thinking

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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