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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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True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way; Yet simple nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n.
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Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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Oh happy state! when souls each other draw,
When love is liberty, and nature, law.
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Unerring Nature, still divinely bright,
One clear, unchanged, and universal light,
Life, force and beauty must to all impart,
At once the source and end and test of art.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
May 21, 1688
Died:
May 30, 1744
(aged 56)
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