The laughers are a majority.
ALEXANDER POPEEve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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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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This long disease, my life.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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