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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

Alexander Pope

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.
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Failure Fools Judgement Men Mindset Pride Strong Vice
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Honesty Lie Lying Motivation Protection Worst
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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Feeling Hide Mistake Myself Teaching
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Greatness Man Person World
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Deep Human Life River Wisdom
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Chance Run Stop Talk Time Wisdom Yourself
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Knowledge Leaving Word Writing
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Advice Deep Growth One Liner Tree Wisdom
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Enemy Friendship Lost Ourselves Praise
The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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God People Voice
Every professional was once an amateur.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner Professional
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Children Education Learning One Liner Song
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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Lose Love Play Relationship Women
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Nature Strange Thinking Vice
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Charity Faith Generosity Hope Kindness Man World
Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Flower Needs One Liner Truth
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Anxiety Food Health Sick
The laughers are a majority.
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Laughter One Liner
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Oneself Romantic World
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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Fingers Greatness Hands Himself Joy Wild
The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Attitude Man Positive Success
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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Beautiful Improvement Nature
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Art Genius Heart Soul Wake Up
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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Force Greatness Himself Invention Lying Oneeslf
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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Feeling Mistake See Wisdom
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Best Feeling Himself
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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Endurance Face Hate Need See Vice

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