An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
ALEXANDER POPEMany men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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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