Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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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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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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