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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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