What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate’er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
ALEXANDER POPEThe laughers are a majority.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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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 world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
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The laughers are a majority.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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