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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Alexander Pope

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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Failure Fools Judgement Men Mindset Pride Strong Vice
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
Every professional was once an amateur.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner Professional
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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Company Friendship Learning Men Myself
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Fortune Herself Honesty Independence Lose Worst
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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Force Greatness Himself Invention Lying Oneeslf
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Myself Parents Poet Sin Writing
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Education Learning Mindset Motivational Strength
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Expression Nature True
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Best Feeling Himself
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Happiness Thinking
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Comfortable Employment Growth Live Old Young
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Beautiful Improvement Nature
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 will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Children Education Learning One Liner Song
It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Best Character Deep Injury People

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