Quote #107

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

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  1. Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.
  2. Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.
  3. Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
  4. If I am right, Thy grace import Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way!
  5. To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
  6. Teach me to feel another's woe, To right the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
  7. The most positive men are the most credulous:
  8. Passions:are the gales of life:

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