All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 267.
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- attributed · historical anthology
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- c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Public domain (United States)
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