An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
ALEXANDER POPEOn life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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