Zitate von Alexander Pope
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Alexander Pope:
Urteile sind wie Uhren; es geht keine der anderen gleich, doch recht scheint jedem seine.
Informationen über Alexander Pope
Schriftsteller, Übersetzer, Herausgeber, Dichter, "Pastorals", "Essay on Criticism", "The Rape of the Lock - Der Lockenraub", "The Dunciad", "Windsor Forest", (England, 1688 - 1744).
Alexander Pope · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Alexander Pope wäre heute 335 Jahre, 11 Monate, 17 Tage oder 122.708 Tage alt.
Geboren am 21.05.1688 in London
Gestorben am 30.05.1744 in Twickenham/London
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Weitere 297 Zitate von Alexander Pope
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Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
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Destroy his fib, or sophistry; in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again.
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Envy will merit, as its shade pursue, but like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave.
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Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
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Ev'n copious Dryden, wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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First follow Nature, and your judgement frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force and beauty must to all impart, At once the source and end and test of art.
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Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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Flow Welsted, flow! like thine inspirer, Beer, Tho' stale, not ripe; tho' thin, yet neverclear; So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull; Heady, not strong; o'erflowing tho' not full.
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For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best:
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it.