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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise.
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An honest man is the noblest work of God.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
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And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call;
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue,
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Such laboured' nothings in so strange a style
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night. God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
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Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
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The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.
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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!
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It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Tis education forms the common mind;
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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