Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
From Alexander Pope
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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