The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
ALEXANDER POPETeach 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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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