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 | "She who ne?er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him,
never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has
her humor most, when she obeys." | |
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Found in the topic Humor.
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| "What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards? Alas! not all the blood
of all the Howards." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves." | |
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Found in the topic Anger.
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| "Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown
propos"d as things forgot." | |
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Found in the topic Teach.
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| "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to
be seen; Yet seen to oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then
pity, then embrace." | |
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Found in the topic Vice.
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| "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread." | |
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Found in the topic Fool.
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| "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move
easiest who have learn"d to dance. "T is not enough no harshness gives
offence,? The sound must seem an echo to the sense." | |
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Found in the topic Art.
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| "The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that
jurymen may dine." | |
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Found in the topic Justice.
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| "Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed
like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,? His
pride in reasoning, not in acting lies." | |
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Found in the topic Reason.
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| "One science only will one genius fit: So vast is art, so narrow
human wit." | |
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Found in the topic Genius.
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| "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which
is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was
yesterday." | |
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Found in the topic Error.
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| "Order is nature?s first law." | |
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Found in the topic Order.
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| "Just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined." | |
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Found in the topic Children.
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| "Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms." | |
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Found in the topic Last.
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| "Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of
friends." | |
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Found in the topic Dog.
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| "Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man"s erring judgment, and
misguide the mind; What the weak head with strongest bias rules,? Is pride,
the never-failing vice of fools." | |
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Found in the topic Pride.
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| "The people" voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of
God." | |
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Found in the topic People.
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| "Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from
what we know?" | |
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Found in the topic God.
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| "True friendship"s laws are by this rule expressed Welcome the
coming, speed the parting guest." | |
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Found in the topic Guest.
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| "A wit "s a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man "s the noblest
work of God." | |
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Found in the topic Honest.
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