I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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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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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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The laughers are a majority.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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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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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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