An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPEHe 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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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 excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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