Pope's "Essay on Criticism." Here, you'll surely recognize one of Pope's most famous lines. It comes six lines from the bottom: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread." It's a line that has been borrowed, whole or in part, throughout the ages by an unlikely mix of writers, politicians and artists, most famously Edmund Burke, Abraham Lincoln, E.M. Forster, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan. From "Essay on Criticism":
from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry: The Enlightenment and Alexander Pope's memorable phrases
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