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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

Alexander Pope

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Friendship Guide One Liner Philosophy Yourself
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Education Fools Learning People Reason Time Understand
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Forget Men Wisdom
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Art Chance Dance Easy Learning True Writing
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Deep Human Life River Wisdom
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Honesty Lie Lying Motivation Protection Worst
The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Divine Government Right Wrong
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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God Greatness Kind Men Study Wisdom
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Enemy Friendship Judgement Work Yourself
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Happiness Thinking
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Divine Forgiveness Human Let Go One Liner
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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Fingers Greatness Hands Himself Joy Wild
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
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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God Life Man Misfortune Myself Perfection Religious
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
All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Appearance Eyes Sick

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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