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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

Alexander Pope

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
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Death Joy Live Pain Yourself
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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Burn Deserve Hope Myself Poetry Praise
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
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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Hide Inspirational Oneself Ourselves Rise Thinking
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Forever Hope Men Spring
Expression is the dress of thought.
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Expression One Liner Thinking
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Enemy Friendship Lost Ourselves Praise
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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Failure Fools Judgement Men Mindset Pride Strong Vice
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Best Feeling Himself
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
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Blessing Disappoint Expectation Men
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Happiness Thinking
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
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 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

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

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