An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
ALEXANDER POPEThere 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.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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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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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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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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