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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.

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
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
The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Divine Government Right Wrong
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
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Expression Nature True
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Angry Hate Ourselves Revenge Spiritual
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Deep Education Learning Spring Wisdom
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Hold Opinion Person
Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Flower Needs One Liner Truth
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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Excellence Learning Mischief Oneself Powerful Science
What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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Feeling Mistake See Wisdom
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Happiness Thinking
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
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Nature Strange Thinking Vice
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Art Genius Heart Soul Wake Up
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Forever Hope Men Spring

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