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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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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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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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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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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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