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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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An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.

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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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

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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, "Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed."

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To err is human; to forgive, divine.

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

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Order is heaven's first law.

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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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