Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
ALEXANDER POPEWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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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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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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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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This long disease, my life.
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On 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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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