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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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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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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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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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