Then know this truth enough for man to know
- DMI number:
- 30938
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Then know this truth enough for man to know
- Last Line:
- Since but to wish more virtue is to gain
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Essay, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Religion and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Man Epistle IV. Twickenham edition III i.
- First Line:
- Know then this truth enough for man to know
- Last Line:
- All end in love of god and love of man
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- O happiness our being's end and aim
- Last Line:
- And all our knowledge is ourselves to know
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.124-125
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Man. Epistle 4.
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