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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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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Education forms the common mind.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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