An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
ALEXANDER POPENever find fault with the absent.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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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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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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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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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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