He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
ALEXANDER POPE
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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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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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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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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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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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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