Johnson’s “Vanity of Human Wishes” was inspired by the famous vanities passage in Ecclesiastes. It’s grim but has an upbeat ending.
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Worldly Vanity vs. Celestial Wisdom
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The Vanity of Human Wishes
To mark today’s reading (from Ecclesiastes) about human vanity, I turn to Samuel Johnson’s great poem about the subject.
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