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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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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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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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