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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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