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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
Hope springs eternal.
Whatever is, is right.
Mankind is unamendable.
I have more zeal than wit.
Dogs, ye have had your day!
How vast a memory has Love!
This long disease, my life.
Order is heaven's first law.
The laughers are a majority.
Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
Every woman is at heart a rake.
Passions are the gales of life.
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
Education forms the common mind.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
Virtue alone is happiness below.
Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
There is a majesty in simplicity.
Never find fault with the absent.
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
Truth needs not flowers of speech.
And not a vanity is given in vain.
A perfect woman's but a softer man.
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Cavil you may, but never criticise.
Beauty draws us with a single hair.
Expression is the dress of thought.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Genius creates, and taste preserves.
Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
A field of glory is a field for all.
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
So perish all who do the like again.
Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Wit and judgment often are at strife.
In death a hero, as in life a friend!
Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
Most women have no characters at all.
