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.
ALEXANDER POPEOn life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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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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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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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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