For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best:For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires

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• Wikiquote (en) · An Essay on Man · Epistle III · estratto «For forms of government let fools contest;Whate'er is best administered is best:For modes » · Line 303, this relates to the biblical "Faith, Hope and Charity" of Paul of Tarsus, in I Corinthians, Ch. 13, v. 13. "And now abideth And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." It is also comparable with Abraham Cowley, On the Death of Crashaw: "His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might / Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right."
• Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires · Riscontro testuale dell’estratto; edizione Gutenberg 2428

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