A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. 681
Teach me to feel another’s woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me. 602
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again. 778
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all. 671
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. 675
