Of 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.
ALEXANDER POPEGreat 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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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