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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.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Alexander I Pope
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander Pope
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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This long disease, my life.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander Pope
Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Alexander Pope
Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
Alexander Pope
Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
Alexander Pope
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
Alexander Pope
A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
Alexander Pope
