On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPEWhy did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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This long disease, my life.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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