Alexander Pope on Religion

“So upright Quakers please both man and God.”

“Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.”

“For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.”

“To happy convents, bosom'd deep in vines, Where slumber abbots purple as their wines.”

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