“Thou Great First Cause, least understood
Who all my sense confined
To know but this, that Thou art good
And that myself am blind.”
Stanza 2
Source: The Universal Prayer (1738)
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Alexander Pope 158
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"Fighting, always fighting?"
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“Good bye, proud world! I'm going home;
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Good Bye
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Good bye, proud world! I'm going home;
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The London Literary Gazette, 1824
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“But who art thou? that Voyce, and beauteous Face,
Not Mortal is; thou art of Heavenly Race.”
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