“Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please,
With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,
With too much quickness ever to be taught,
With too much thinking to have common thought:
You purchase pain with all that joy can give,
And die of nothing but a rage to live.”
― Moral Essays
With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,
With too much quickness ever to be taught,
With too much thinking to have common thought:
You purchase pain with all that joy can give,
And die of nothing but a rage to live.”
― Moral Essays
“Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”
― An Essay On Criticism
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”
― An Essay On Criticism
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