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.
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Zum Autor"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."
"Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance."
"Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think."
"Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach."
"What so tedious as a twice-told tale?"
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."