Yesterday was the birthday of Alexander Pope who wrote -
"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
And, "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
and the deliciously fun "Essay on Man."
From "An Essay on Man" -
"Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;
Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
Man, but for that, no action could attend,
And but for this, were active to no end:
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;
Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void,
Destroying others, by himself destroy'd."
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