The laughers are a majority.
ALEXANDER POPEThe vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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 who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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