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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

An Essay on Criticism · 1711

★ 7.0

To err is human, to forgive divine.

An Essay on Criticism · 1711

★ 7.0

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.

An Essay on Criticism · 1711

★ 5.2

Essay · Satire

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

1711

★ 3.7

Essay · Satire

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

1711

★ 3.7

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

An Essay on Criticism · 1711

★ 3.6

True Happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise: it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

The Spectator · 1711

★ 3.5

When you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

Sir Richard Steele

The Spectator · 1711

★ 3.5

Essay · Philosophical literature

There is nothing in this World constant, but Inconstancy.

1711

★ 2.1

Essay · Philosophical literature

Laws are like Cobwebs, which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through.

1711

★ 2.0

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

An Essay on Criticism · 1711

★ 1.9

Some praise at morning what they blame at night; But always think the last opinion right.

An Essay on Criticism · 1711

★ 1.9

But where's the man, who counsel can bestow, Still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know?

1711

★ 1.9

What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to a Human Soul.

1711

★ 1.9

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

The Spectator · 1711

★ 1.8

It is the Folly of too many, to mistake the Eccho of a London Coffee-house for the Voice of the Kingdom.

1711

★ 1.2

Essay · Satire

The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

1711

★ 1.2