Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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This long disease, my life.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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