“Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.”
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An English poet, best known for his satire and translations.
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“Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.”
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“The world forgetting, by the world forgot.”
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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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“But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?”
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“The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.”
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“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”
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“Act well your part, there all the honour lies.”
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“Wit is the lowest form of humor.”
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“The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.”
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“The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.”
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“Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”
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“There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.”
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“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.”
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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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“One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
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“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
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“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”
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“To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.”
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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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“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.”
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