The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
ALEXANDER POPELet fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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