Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

Alexander Pope

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To err is human; to forgive, divine.

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

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

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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

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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

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This long disease, my life.

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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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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.

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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.

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What then remains, but well our power to use,

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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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