Quote #103
The most positive men are the most credulous:
More from Alexander Pope
- Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
- To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
- Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unlucki…
- Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
- Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.
- He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
- And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.