Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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

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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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

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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope in An Essay on Criticism, 1711
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

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