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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

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To err is human; to forgive, divine.

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

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