Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
ALEXANDER POPEA patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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The laughers are a majority.
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