Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread
The line For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. was first written by Alexander Pope in his poem An Essay on Criticism.
It has since been used as follows:
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“Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 13:20.
“At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.”
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among the many who passed and repassed,
trod air as swimmers tread water, each gazing
on the angelic wings of the other,
the intelligence proper to great angels flew into their wings,
the intelligence called intellectual love....”
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Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny;
Her smiles are lightning, though her pride despair;
And her disdains are gall, her favours honey.
A modest maid, decked with a blush of honour,
Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love,”
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