The laughers are a majority.
ALEXANDER POPEA patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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This long disease, my life.
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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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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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