The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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