To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
ALEXANDER POPE
And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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This long disease, my life.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Women 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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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