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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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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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