The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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 youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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