Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
Alexander Pope on Religion
1688–1744 England
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite,
Who never mentions hell to ears polite.
To happy convents, bosom'd deep in vines,
Where slumber abbots purple as their wines.
See sin in state, majestically drunk;
Proud as a peeress, prouder as a punk.
Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires,
And unawares Morality expires.
So upright Quakers please both man and God.
How shall I lose the sin yet keep the sense,
And love th' offender, yet detest the offence?
Eloise to Abelard (1717)
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had;
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
And truths divine came mended from that tongue.
Eloisa to Abelard (1717)
The gracious Dew of Pulpit Eloquence,
And all the well-whip'd Cream of Courtly Sense.
The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712)
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