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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope
Wisdom, Fear, Angel
An Essay on Criticism l. 625 (1711)

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.

Alexander Pope
Fear, Night, Fire

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Alexander Pope
Fear, Butterfly, Atheism

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born to die, and reasoning but to err.

Alexander Pope
Wise, Fear, Doubt
Alexander Pope (1867). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.18

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

Alexander Pope
Fear, Land, Understanding
Alexander Pope, Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount.) (1824). “An essay on man: in four epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.48

Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope
Fear, Angel, Fool
Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.73

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