To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
ALEXANDER POPEDo 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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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 little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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