The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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