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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

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

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.