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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.

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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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

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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

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