Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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Passions are the gales of life.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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The laughers are a majority.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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