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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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