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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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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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