All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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