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True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd.

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Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed.

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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All gardening is landscape painting.

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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'dWhat oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,That gives u...more

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Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.

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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:Be not the first by whom the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay ...more

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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no...more

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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

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Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!