For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks;

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it still looks home, and short excursions makes; but rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks; and never shock'd, and never turn'd aside, bursts out, resistless, with a thundering tide ...

Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope
1709

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1. Laurels? Do not foolishly demand them.

a fragment from one of my favorite poems...

... translated to English:

Laurels? Do not foolishly demand them.
Ascents begins with falls
for overreaching spans and large burdens.
Thus, from the crest of yonder cliff,
The condor of the Andes jumps,
and for a moment plummets.

It is a good battle if,
at the end,
glory shimmers on a warrior’s shield
thick with arrows.

- Ode to a Prophet
by Salvador Diaz Mirón - Mexican poet


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