Alexander Pope said this quote

“ In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. ”

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If I am right, Thy grace impartStill in the right to stay;If I am wrong, O, teach my heartTo find that better way!

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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

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