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Lies Quotes by Alexander Pope
- An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
- Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more…
- Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in…
- Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
- A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
- In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,…
- Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
- Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
- Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with…
- Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies
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