The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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