A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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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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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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