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"Mortality", in Songs of Israel (1824). Abraham Lincoln was fond of repeating these lines.
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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William Knox
Born:
1789
Died:
1825
(aged 36)
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William Knox was a Scottish poet. He is known for writing Abraham Lincoln's favourite poem, Mortality, which Lincoln often recited by memory.
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