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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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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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