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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. "

Alexander Pope

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Through

" Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! "

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" Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. "

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" Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. "

" The proper study of Mankind is Man. "

" A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. "

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Face

" Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire. "

" But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. "

" Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. "

" Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. "

" The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. "

" Men would be angels, angels would be gods. "

" Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. "

" No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday. "

" The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. "

" The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. "

" Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. "

" Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. "

" Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. "

" Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind. "

" What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. "

" On wrongs swift vengeance waits. "

" Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? "

" Woman's at best a contradiction still. "