All nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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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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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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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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