An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
ALEXANDER POPEBeauty draws us with a single hair.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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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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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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