Zitate von Alexander Pope
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Die eigensinnigsten Menschen sind zugleich die leichtgläubigsten, da sie mehr sich selber glauben und sich viel mit dem falschesten Schmeichler und ärgsten Feind beraten: ihrer eigenen Selbstliebe.
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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, 28 Tage oder 122.719 Tage alt.
Geboren am 21.05.1688 in London
Gestorben am 30.05.1744 in Twickenham/London
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge
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Weitere 297 Zitate von Alexander Pope
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How little, mark! that portion of the ball, Where, faint at best, the beams of science fall.
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How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray, tell me sir, whose dog are you?
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind: Or ravished with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame!
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If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies.
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In words as fashions the same rule will hold, alike fantastic if too new or old; be not the first by whom the new are tried nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Isles of fragrance, lily-silver'd vales.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
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It is with our judgments as our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much.
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Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.