Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
ALEXANDER POPE
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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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