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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Alexander Pope

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
Passions are the gales of life.
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Life One Liner Passion
And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Air Walk Wings
Never find fault with the absent.
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Absence Mistake One Liner
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
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Art Chance Dance Easy Learning True Writing
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Friendship Guide One Liner Philosophy Yourself
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
All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Appearance Eyes Sick
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Anxiety Food Health Sick
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
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Dangerous Education Knowledge Learning
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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Failure Fools Judgement Men Mindset Pride Strong Vice
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Nature Strange Thinking Vice
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Act Character Honor Lying One Liner
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Greatness Man Person World

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