The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes!
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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.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Health consists with temperance alone.
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.
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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