We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
ALEXANDER POPETo be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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