Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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