'Twixt that, and reason, what a nice barrier;
For ever sep'rate, yet for ever near!
(An Essay On Man In Four Epistles: Epistle 1)
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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.
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For sure such courage length of life denies,
And thou must fall, thy virtue's sacrifice.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Line after line my gushing eyes o'erflow,
Led through a sad variety of woe:
Now warm in love, now with'ring in thy bloom,
Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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In wit a man simplicity a child.
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