Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e’er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.
The world forgetting by the world forgot.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.