Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
ALEXANDER POPEPassions are the gales of life.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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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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The laughers are a majority.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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