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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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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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