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

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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every...

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every...

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price...

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price...

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

Order is Heaven's first law

Order is Heaven's first law

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor...

Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor...

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth...

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth...

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer...

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer...

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or...

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or...

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have...

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have...

At every word a reputation dies.

At every word a reputation dies.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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

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

My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require...

My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require...

Charitably...I think...Sometimes perhaps one must change or die. And in the end, there were perhaps...

Charitably...I think...Sometimes perhaps one must change or die. And in the end, there were perhaps...

Change is not a process for the impatient.

Change is not a process for the impatient.

Boy, life takes a long time to live

Boy, life takes a long time to live

There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human...

There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human...