- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most positive men are the most credulous.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
- Lies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Order is heaven's first law.
- Mankind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
- Gods
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
- Forgetting
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- Nov 07, 2020
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
- Expects
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
- Fools
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- Nov 07, 2020
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
- Chambers
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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!
- Nov 07, 2020
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- Passions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Passions are the gales of life.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
- Judges
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
- Gentle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
- Humor
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
- Consists
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health consists with temperance alone.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
- Fools
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
- Honest
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- Nov 07, 2020
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
- Swift
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- Nov 07, 2020
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
- Dunces
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
- Painful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
- Move
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
- Merit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
- Dejected
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
- Contradiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
- Forgot
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
- Nov 07, 2020
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
- Huge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
- Nov 07, 2020
At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
- Divisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
- Feathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
- Nov 07, 2020
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Err
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- Nov 07, 2020
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- Destiny
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