Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat 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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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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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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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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