Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
ALEXANDER POPELulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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