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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

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Hold Opinion Person
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
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
Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Company Friendship Learning Men Myself
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Art Literature Nature One Liner
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
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy Wisdom
The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Attitude Man Positive Success
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Deep Education Learning Spring Wisdom
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Divine Forgiveness Human Let Go One Liner
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Expression Nature True
For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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Burn Deserve Hope Myself Poetry Praise
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
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Art Genius Heart Soul Wake Up
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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Growth Inspirational Motivational Shame Wisdom Word Wrong
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Best Feeling Himself

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