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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

Alexander Pope

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
ALEXANDER POPE

Nature Strange Thinking Vice
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Best Brother God Himself Service
There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Deserve Men Myself Oneself Safety
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Hold Opinion Person
As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Advice Deep Wisdom
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
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
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Deep Peace War
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
All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Appearance Eyes Sick
Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Appearance Beautiful Hairs
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 are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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God Life Nature Oneself Soul
The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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God People Voice
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
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

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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