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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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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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