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A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing; Drink Deep, Or Taste Not The Pierian Spring
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A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 15
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 325...
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 15...
All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 358...
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 266...
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 126...
And make each day a critic on the last.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 12...
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 66...
Led by the light of the Maeonian star.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 89...