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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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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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