All nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPEOf 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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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