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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

A person who is too

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.
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Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

Nothing is greater or more

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

Remembrance and reflection how allied.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson

Cynics regarded everybody as equally

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
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Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

Know that you are your

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

Charm strikes the sight, but

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

Alexander Pope

But thousands die without or

But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.
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Alain de Lille

Alain de Lille

Do not hold as gold

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
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Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

He that is proud of

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

At every trifle take offense,

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Fredrich Halm

Fredrich Halm

Two souls with but a

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

All nature is but art

All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

No man can tell but

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.
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Anthony Neil Wedgewood

Anthony Neil Wedgewood

A faith is something you

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
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Saville

Saville

Women have more strengths in

Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.
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Emeasoba George

Emeasoba George

Jealousy/Covetousness is all about being

Jealousy/Covetousness is all about being concerned with other people's blessings rather than yours. But may I tell you this. You shouldn't be concerned with anybody's blessing. Yes, because every living human is blessed. Oh! Yes, it's a matter of mentality. Besides, if not for any other thing/reason. At least, the life you are living presently is being denied to many people out there in the mortuary. At this juncture, I hope you've realized truly you are not expected to covet/jealous anyone for any reason. Thus, go ahead and appreciate whatever you've got currently. And do glorify/thank God almighty who is the sole giver and taker of life/grace/wisdom/insight/every other true blessing.
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Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

Curiosity is the direct incontinence

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
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Anuj Somany

Anuj Somany

Success is not a journey,

Success is not a journey, it's a destination called satisfaction."~Anuj Somany
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Rollin Wilson

Rollin Wilson

Along with such abundance of

Along with such abundance of grace comes the gift of righteousness. Again grace and righteousness combine to allow believers to experience the enthroned life in Jesus Christ. In God's dealings with man today, grace is king. Grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord
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Anonymous

Anonymous

Marriage is the most expensive

Marriage is the most expensive way to get your laundry done for free.
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Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

Every act of virtue is

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
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Emeasoba George

Emeasoba George

Every so seemed/called failure is

Every so seemed/called failure is traceable to an excuse. That infers, there can be no failure until there is an excuse. I mean, it takes an excuse to be/remain a failure in anything in life. Yes of course, whoever that often gives an excuse is as well likely to achieve little things or nothing in his/her lifetime. So, hence forth do give less excuses or no excuse at all.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

Whoever keeps his mouth shut

Whoever keeps his mouth shut when he realizes that he is wrong is wise and he who holds the mouth even if he is right is married.
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A. Lawrence Lowell

A. Lawrence Lowell

Pleasure is a by-product of

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
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