True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
ALEXANDER POPEHope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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This long disease, my life.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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