Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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