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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

Alexander Pope

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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Enemy Friendship Judgement Work Yourself
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Forget Men Wisdom
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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God Himself Money People Rich Value
What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Character Failure Goodness Humor Power Trust
There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Deserve Men Myself Oneself Safety
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Death Joy Live Pain Yourself
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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Acceptance Forget Love Mindset Remember Sunshine
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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God Life Man Misfortune Myself Perfection Religious
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Education Fools Learning People Reason Time Understand
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Anxiety Food Health Sick
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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God Greatness Kind Men Study Wisdom
Expression is the dress of thought.
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Expression One Liner Thinking
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Age One Liner Youth
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Expression Nature True
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Appearance Beautiful Character Soul Win
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Endurance Face Hate Need See Vice

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