"But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit."
— Instinct

January 1, 1970

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Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle III, line 85; in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 397-98.