The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
ALEXANDER POPEConceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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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 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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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