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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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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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