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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
[ Memory ]
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
[ Devil ]
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
[ Arrogance ]
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Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
[ Trials ]
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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
[ Passion ]
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
[ Fanatics and Fanaticism ]
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
[ Sex ]
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
[ Marriage ]
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
[ Hatred ]
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
[ Vulgarity ]
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To err is human, to forgive is divine.
[ Forgiveness ]
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True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
[ Argument ]
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
[ Wit ]
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
[ Self-knowledge ]
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
[ Motivation ]
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Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
[ Virtue ]
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
[ Fathers and Sons ]
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
[ Fame ]
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
[ Argument ]
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
[ Exaggeration ]
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
[ Writers and Writing ]
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
[ Eyes ]
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
[ Inspiration ]
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