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“Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.”
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- Source:
- Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 1.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 33979c0f675cabdf77937c26af3df530857b187bd5e15fcecae7caf9936dcfdc
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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