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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

Alexander Pope

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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Dangerous Education Learning Money Wisdom
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Deep Peace War
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Death Joy Live Pain Yourself
There is a majesty in simplicity.
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One Liner Simplicity
Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Cheating Devil Men One Liner Religious
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Angry Hate Ourselves Revenge Spiritual
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Hold Opinion Person
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Endurance Face Hate Need See Vice
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Honesty Lie Lying Motivation Protection Worst
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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Burn Deserve Hope Myself Poetry Praise
All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Appearance Eyes Sick
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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Enemy Friendship Judgement Work Yourself
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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Best Character Deep Injury People
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Knowledge Leaving Word Writing
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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