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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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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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