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.
ALEXANDER POPEAn obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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