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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

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

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

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

In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

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

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

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.

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

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

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.

The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

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