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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

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And more than echoes talk along the walls.

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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.

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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

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Most authors steal their works, or buy.

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

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