To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
ALEXANDER POPELulled 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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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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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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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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The laughers are a majority.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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