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 POPEThere is a majesty in simplicity.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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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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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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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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