. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . nnection both of gods and men;How everything proceeds, or by what stayed;And know (as far as fit to be surveyed)Nature alike throughout; that thou mayst learnNot to hope hopeless things, but all discern;And know those wretches whose perverser willsDraw down upon their hearts spontaneous ills,Unto the good thats near them deaf and blind;Some few the cure of these misfortunes find. ,This only is the Fate that harms, and rollsThrough miseries successive human is a continual hidden sight,Which we to shun
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . nnection both of gods and men;How everything proceeds, or by what stayed;And know (as far as fit to be surveyed)Nature alike throughout; that thou mayst learnNot to hope hopeless things, but all discern;And know those wretches whose perverser willsDraw down upon their hearts spontaneous ills,Unto the good thats near them deaf and blind;Some few the cure of these misfortunes find. ,This only is the Fate that harms, and rollsThrough miseries successive human is a continual hidden sight,Which we to shun must study, not excite. Great Jove! how little trouble should we know,If thou to all men wouldst their genius show!But fear not thou—man born of heavenly race,Taught by diviner Nature what to , if pursued, thou all Ive named shall gain,And keep thy soul clean from thy bodys time of prayer and cleansing, meats denied __Abstain from; thy minds reins, let Reason guide;Then stripped of flesh, up to free ether soar,A deathless god—divine—mortal no
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