Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
ALEXANDER POPELet fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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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.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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