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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.

Alexander Pope

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
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Expression Nature True
The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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God People Voice
The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Attitude Man Positive Success
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
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
This long disease, my life.
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Life One Liner Perspective Science
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Greatness Man Person World
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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Comfortable Employment Growth Live Old Young
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
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Forever Hope Men Spring
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
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Chance Run Stop Talk Time Wisdom Yourself
It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Best Character Deep Injury People
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
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Age One Liner Youth

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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