General John Pope

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    He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
    Olympia Brown (1835–1900)

    And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps.
    —Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 14:2.

    Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)