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

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

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

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

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 reason still.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

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.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

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