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Expression is the dress of thought.

Alexander Pope

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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Beautiful Improvement Nature
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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God Life Nature Oneself Soul
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Enemy Friendship Judgement Work Yourself
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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Force Greatness Himself Invention Lying Oneeslf
Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Justice Law Love One Liner Right
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
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Best Brother God Himself Service
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Character Fame Goodness Life Positive
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Death Joy Live Pain Yourself
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
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Charity Faith Generosity Hope Kindness Man World
For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Burn Deserve Hope Myself Poetry Praise
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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Acceptance Forget Love Mindset Remember Sunshine
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Forever Hope Men Spring
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Forget Men Wisdom
And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Air Walk Wings

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