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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Alexander Pope

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Charity Faith Generosity Hope Kindness Man World
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Dangerous Education Learning Money Wisdom
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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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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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Lose Love Play Relationship Women
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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Feeling Hide Mistake Myself Teaching
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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Hide Inspirational Oneself Ourselves Rise Thinking
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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