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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

Alexander Pope

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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Fingers Greatness Hands Himself Joy Wild
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Divine Forgiveness Human Let Go One Liner
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Forever Hope Men Spring
Never find fault with the absent.
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Absence Mistake One Liner
What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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Feeling Mistake See Wisdom
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Beautiful Improvement Nature
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Character Fame Goodness Life Positive
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Art Chance Dance Easy Learning True Writing
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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God Life Man Misfortune Myself Perfection Religious
Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Feeling Hide Mistake Myself Teaching
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Anxiety Food Health Sick
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Ability Generousity Man Wisdom
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Forget Men Wisdom
As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Advice Deep Wisdom
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Deep Peace War
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

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