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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Do 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.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope 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 PopeAlexander Pope Every professional was once an amateur.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope There is a majesty in simplicity.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope
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