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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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True wit is nature to advantage dressed;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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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