Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPEAn excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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Do 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.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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