De Tweede Ronde. Jaargang 24
(2003)– [tijdschrift] Tweede Ronde, De– Auteursrechtelijk beschermd
[pagina 195]
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Over de kritiek (II, 201-18)
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[Engels]Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgement and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride. The never-failing vice of fools.
Whatever Nature has in worth denied,
She gives in large recruits of needless pride;
For as in bodies, thus in souls we find,
What wants in blood ans spirits, swelled with wind:
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence,
And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
If once right reason drives that cloud away,
Truts breaks upon us with resistless day.
Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,
Make useof every friend - and every foe.
A little learning is a dangerous thing,
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow drafts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
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