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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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

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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

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