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Act well your part; there all honor lies.
[ Honor ]
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
[ Prejudice ]
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
[ Nature ]
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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
[ Excuses ]
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
[ Honesty ]
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
[ Opinions ]
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
[ Gossip ]
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
[ Pride ]
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At every word a reputation dies.
[ Gossip ]
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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
[ Change ]
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
[ Beauty ]
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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
[ Children ]
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
[ Disappointments ]
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
[ Credit ]
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
[ Wealth ]
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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
[ Strangers ]
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
[ Merit ]
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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
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Die and endow a college or a cat.
[ Inheritance ]
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
[ Education ]
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Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
[ Inertia ]
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
[ Praise ]
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
[ Admiration ]
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Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
[ Government ]
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For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
[ Insanity ]
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Health consists with temperance alone.
[ Health ]
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
[ Loyalty ]
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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
[ Character ]
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
[ Chastity ]
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
[ Forgiveness ]
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I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
[ Class ]
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
[ Faith ]
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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
[ Judgment and Judges ]
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
[ Happiness ]
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
[ Self-knowledge ]
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
[ Tyranny ]
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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
[ Generosity ]
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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
[ Men ]
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
[ Ambition ]
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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Most women have no characters at all.
[ Women ]
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
[ Attitude ]
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
[ Progress ]
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
[ Reason ]
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
[ Vengeance ]
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
[ Science and Scientists ]
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Passions are the gales of life.
[ Passion ]
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
[ Praise ]
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