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

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Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

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Education forms the common mind.

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Woman's at best a contradiction still.

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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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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 nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

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For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

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