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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.

By Alexander Pope

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.

By Alexander Pope

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

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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

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For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue,
But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.

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

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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame

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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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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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Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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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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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

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

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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

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An honest man is the noblest work of God.

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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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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