Alexander Pope Quotes, Reality Quotes, Growth Quotes

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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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

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Never find fault with the absent.

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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

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With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

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