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'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tr...  
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief...  
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.  
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else ...  
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the P...  
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which i...  
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, lik...  
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.  
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the pr...  
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.  
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and G...  
All nature is but art unknown to thee.  
An honest man's the noblest work of God.  
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made en...  
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.  
At every word a reputation dies.  
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the d...  
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay th...  
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickle...  
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappoi...  
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighte...  
But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-exist...  
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but j...  
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right,...  
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's ...  
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some myster...  
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in o...  
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.  
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.  
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administer...  
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong who...  
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius...  
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.  
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get...  
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? I...  
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content ...  
Health consists with temperance alone.  
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of fr...  
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all ...  
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To ...  
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the ...  
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!  
I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?  
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to...  
If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!  
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Pl...  
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if to...  
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the les...  
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness...  
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, a...  
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own a...  
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears...  
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked...  
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.  
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.  
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" ...  
Never find fault with the absent.  
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying,...  
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, be...  
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a chi...  
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion ...  
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.  
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human ...  
Order is heaven's first law.  
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stro...  
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.  
Passions are the gales of life.  
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.  
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels ...  
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides se...  
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of p...  
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature ...  
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.  
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you...  
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they u...  
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.  
Teach me to feel another's woe,To hide the fault I see,That mercy I to...  
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.  
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an ou...  
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber i...   Intelligence
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurym...  
The most positive men are the most credulous.  
The proper study of Mankind is Man.  
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers re...  
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes ...  
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.  
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so th...  
There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, "Old fish at table, but ...  
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.  
To err is human; to forgive, divine.   Forgiveness
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' ...  
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every...  
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend...  
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decenci...  
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, i...  
When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: t...  
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?  
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, l...  
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is...  
Wit is the lowest form of humor.   Humor
With loads of learned lumber in his head.