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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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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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