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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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