The laughers are a majority.
ALEXANDER POPEDo good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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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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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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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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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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