Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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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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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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