Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all …

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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. ✨ Alexander Pope (1823). An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems, p.33
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For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the … ▶
Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky. ✨ Alexander Pope (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated), p.1130, Delphi Classics
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. ✨ Alexander Pope (1967). The Iliad of Homer, p.191, Lulu.com
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. ✨ Alexander Pope (1794). The works of Alexander Pope, with remarks and illustrations. By G. Wakefield, p.245

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. ✨ Alexander Pope (1823). An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems, p.33

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