True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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The laughers are a majority.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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 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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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