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.
ALEXANDER POPEWhy did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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 laughers are a majority.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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 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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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