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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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