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.
ALEXANDER POPEAs the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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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.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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