<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342697" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ad Moodium</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tut! Moody, do not try to show<br>To gentlemen and ladies<br>That if they have not 'Faith,' they'll go<br>Headlong to Hades.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Faith is belief; and how can I<br>Have that by being willing?<br>This dime I cannot, though I try,<br>Believe a shilling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps you can. If so, pray do-<br>Believe you own it, also.<br>But what seems evidence to you<br>I may not call so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heaven knows I'd like the Faith to think<br>This little vessel's contents<br>Are liquid gold. I see 'tis ink<br>For writing nonsense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Minds prone to Faith, however, may<br>Come now and then to sorrow:<br>They put their trust in truth to-day,<br>In lies to-morrow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No doubt the happiness is great<br>To think as one would wish to;<br>But not to swallow every bait,<br>As certain fish do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To think a snake a cord, I hope,<br>Would bolden and delight me;<br>But some day I might think a rope<br>Would chase and bite me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Curst Reason! Faith forever blest!'<br>You're crying all the season.<br>Well, who decides that Faith is best?<br>Why, Mr. Reason.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He's right or wrong; he answers you<br>According to your folly,<br>And says what you have taught him to,<br>Like any polly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342697" data-title="Ad Moodium de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Tut! Moody, do not try to show To gentlemen and ladies That if they have not 'Faith,' they'll go Headlong to Hades. Faith is belief; and how can I Have that by being willing? This dime I cannot, though I try, Believe a shilling. Perhaps you can...."></div> </div> </div>

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