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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.

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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

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The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.

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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.

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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

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Passions are the gales of life.

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