“If I am right, Thy grace import
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, oh teach my heart
To find that better way!”

—  Alexander Pope , Moral Essays

The Universal Prayer (1738)
Source: Moral Essays

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eighteenth century English poet 1688–1744

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