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 POPEAll are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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