“And die of nothing but a rage to live”
Variant: You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
Source: Moral Essays
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Moral Essays
Moral Essays is a series of four poems on ethical subjects by Alexander Pope, published between 1731 and 1735. The individual poems are as follows:
The Universal Prayer (1738)
Source: Moral Essays
“Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
Epistle I, To Lord Cobham (1734), line 150
Moral Essays (1731–1735)
