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struggle4progress

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9. A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 09:00 PM
Jul 2025

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts,
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts ;
While from the bounded level of our mind
Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind,
But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise
New distant scenes of endless science rise !
So pleased at first the towering Alps we try,
Mount o’er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ;
The eternal snows appear already past,
And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ;
But those attained, we tremble to survey
The growing labours of the lengthened way ;
The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes,
Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise !

https://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Pope/a_little_learning.htm

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It's rock 'n' roll. Ocelot II Jul 2025 #1
I mean, it's not like testing methods have gotten better over time sakabatou Jul 2025 #2
Let me guess. Breathing causes autism? Eating? Drinking water? Just Autumn Jul 2025 #3
When RFKjr was a kid, what we now consider autism did not exist Fiendish Thingy Jul 2025 #4
I'm about RFKJR's age. When I was a kid there was a boy in my neighborhood who we later realized Ocelot II Jul 2025 #10
in the 60's my severely autistic brother was diagnosed as "emotionally disturbed" Skittles Jul 2025 #14
Sigh lonely bird Jul 2025 #5
Ignorant and arrogant llmart Jul 2025 #7
he's evil mucifer Jul 2025 #8
I love how he says this stuff like he's the first person to ever think "hey maybe we should research this!" Takket Jul 2025 #6
A little learning is a dangerous thing ; struggle4progress Jul 2025 #9
Alexander Pope says it well. RobK took his young family members swimming in a severely polluted spring... Hekate Jul 2025 #18
Gosh, when you don't rely on any scientific methodology, the conclusion can be anything. Baitball Blogger Jul 2025 #11
We have a deranged psychopath in charge of public health. WTF. Initech Jul 2025 #12
Some credible studies are showing a link between microplastic exposure pre/post natal and Autism. mackdaddy Jul 2025 #13
"by September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic," LudwigPastorius Jul 2025 #15
"Two months" is going to become the new "two weeks." Grokenstein Jul 2025 #17
We have a profoundly stupid ghoul in charge of our health system dalton99a Jul 2025 #16
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