A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
ALEXANDER POPEThe laughers are a majority.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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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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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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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