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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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