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Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 21 · quotation 2 · Pope · Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 157.
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