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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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This long disease, my life.
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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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