O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
ALEXANDER POPEWhen we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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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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