The laughers are a majority.
ALEXANDER POPEAll nature is but art unknown to thee.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Passions are the gales of life.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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