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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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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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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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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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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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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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