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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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