True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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 little learning is a dangerous thing.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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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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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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 most positive men are the most credulous.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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