Order is heaven's first law.
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Alexander Pope
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For he lives twice who can at once employ,The present well, and e__n the past enjoy.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Never find fault with the absent.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
Health consists with temperance alone.
Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.