When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does 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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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