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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

Alexander Pope

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Justice Law Love One Liner Right
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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God Himself Money People Rich Value
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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Deserve Men Myself Oneself Safety
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Deep Peace War
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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God Life Nature Oneself Soul
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
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Best Brother God Himself Service
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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Force Greatness Himself Invention Lying Oneeslf
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Act Character Honor Lying 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
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
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Excellence Learning Mischief Oneself Powerful Science
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 patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Age Fools One Liner Patriot
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Angry Hate Ourselves Revenge Spiritual
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

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