“In
lazy apathy let Stoics boast
Their
virtue fix'd, 'tis fix'd as in a frost;
Contracted
all, retiring to the breast;
But
strength of mind is exercise, not rest:
The
rising tempest puts in act the soul,
Parts
it may ravage, but preserves the whole.”—English poet Alexander Pope
(1688-1744), “An Essay on Man: Epistle II” (1733)
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