Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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This long disease, my life.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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