An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
ALEXANDER POPEA patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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