An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
ALEXANDER POPEDo you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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