An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
ALEXANDER POPEStrength of mind is exercise, not rest.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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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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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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