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With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.
Landlords
Robert Pollok

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.
Mistakes
Pomfret

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Act well your part; there all honor lies.
Honor
Alexander Pope

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Nature
Alexander Pope

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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Honesty
Alexander Pope

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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
Opinions
Alexander Pope

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
Change
Alexander Pope

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Beauty
Alexander Pope

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Children
Alexander Pope

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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Disappointments
Alexander Pope

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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Merit
Alexander Pope

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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
Alexander Pope

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

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

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For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Insanity
Alexander Pope

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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Loyalty
Alexander Pope

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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Character
Alexander Pope

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Chastity
Alexander Pope

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Forgiveness
Alexander Pope

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Happiness
Alexander Pope

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Self-knowledge
Alexander Pope

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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
Writers and Writing
Alexander Pope

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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Attitude
Alexander Pope

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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Progress
Alexander Pope

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Reason
Alexander Pope

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun