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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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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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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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