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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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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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