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The most positive men are the most credulous.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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