Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.


Alexander Pope

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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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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Health consists with temperance alone.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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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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The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
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Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
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Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such...
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye...
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Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
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Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
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Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
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No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
ALEXANDER POPE
One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that ...
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where o...
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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall de...
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on othe...
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