Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
ALEXANDER POPETo swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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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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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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