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Seek not thy self without thy self to find

DMI number:
5957
First Line:
Seek not thy self without thy self to find
Last Line:
For conscience is the test of every mind
Poem Genre / Form:
Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
Themes:
Virtue / vice
Related People
Author:
John Dryden
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Dryden's First Satire of Persius ('How anxious are our cares and yet how vain') (order of lines inverted). Calif. IV (1974): 259 [last line is first: ‘The Conscience’]
Content/Publication
Title:
Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
Page No(s):
p.129
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed