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Oh, Sons Of Earth! Attempt Ye Still To Rise. By Mountains Pil'd On Mountains To The Skies? Heav'n Still With Laughter The Vain Toil Surveys, And Buries Madmen In The Heaps They Raise.

Know Then This Truth, Enough For Man To Know Virtue Alone Is Happiness Below.

Heav'n From All Creatures Hides The Book Of Fate, All But The Page Prescribed, Their Present State: From Brutes What Men, From Men What Spirits Know: Or Who Could Suffer Being Here Below?

Ambition First Sprung From Your Blest Abodes: The Glorious Fault Of Angels And Of Gods.

Yes, I Am Proud; I Must Be Proud To See Men Not Afraid Of God, Afraid Of Me.