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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
To err is human to forgive, divine.
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.
Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.