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The laughers are a majority.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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