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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

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The most positive men are the most credulous.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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

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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

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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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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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Teach me to feel another's woe,To hide the fault I see,That mercy I to others show,That mercy show to me.

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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