Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
ALEXANDER POPEAll nature is but art unknown to thee.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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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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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.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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