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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. | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out. | [▲] | [▼] |
| You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. | [▲] | [▼] |
| To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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. | [▲] | [▼] |
| 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Health consists with temperance alone. | [▲] | [▼] |
| But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state? | [▲] | [▼] |
| Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. | [▲] | [▼] |
| A decent boldness ever meets with friends. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve | [▲] | [▼] |
| A bee is not a busier animal than a blockhe | [▲] | [▼] |