Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPEThe world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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