The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
ALEXANDER POPENo 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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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