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Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Art

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It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.

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In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

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But all subsists by elemental strife; And Passions are the elements of Life.

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'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance....

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Die and endow a college or a cat.

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Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track....

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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.

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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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

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Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.

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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

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