The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
ALEXANDER POPEWomen use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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