All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPEWhy did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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