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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

— Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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Compare: "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, He can't be wrong whose life is in the right", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, epilogue iii, line 303

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