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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Dangerous Education Learning Money Wisdom
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Expression Nature True
What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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Feeling Mistake See Wisdom
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Forget Men Wisdom
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
Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Country Daring Love Poor
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Best Feeling Himself
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Best Brother God Himself Service
A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Age Fools One Liner Patriot
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Angel Fear Fools One Liner Rush Wisdom
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
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Myself Parents Poet Sin Writing
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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Excellence Learning Mischief Oneself Powerful Science
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Art Chance Dance Easy Learning True Writing
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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Growth Lose Performance Reality Yourself
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Nature Strange Thinking Vice

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