Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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• The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own...
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
• In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
• A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
• The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a...
• Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days...
• To err is human; to forgive, divine.
• Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show,...
• While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
• See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels...
• To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
• Genius creates, and taste preserves.
• No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
• Satire’s my weapon, but I’m too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
• Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.