The laughers are a majority.
ALEXANDER POPEThere is a majesty in simplicity.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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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 most positive men are the most credulous.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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