family lore

My great grandmother wrote a poem in my aunt’s 6th grade yearbook. It always puzzled her, especially in context of the surrounding middle school antics. It went:

Honor and shame,
From no condition rise,
Do well your part,
There all the honor lies.

We asked GPT where it’s from, and it’s from a 1734 essay called “An Essay on Man” by Alexander Pope. It’s

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