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Wer eine Lüge sagt, merkt nicht, welch große Aufgabe er übernimmt, denn er wird gezwungen sein, zwanzig weitere zu erfinden, um diese eine aufrecht zu erhalten.
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, 29 Tage oder 122.720 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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Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.
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Let Sporus tremble - 'What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?'
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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Like following life thro' creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.
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Lo!the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heav'n.
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Love-whisp'ring woods, and lute-resounding waves.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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Music resembles poetry: In each are nameless graces which no methods teach And which a master-hand alone can reach.
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Nature, and Nature's laws lay hid in night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
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None need a guide, by sure attraction led, And strong impulsive gravity of head.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast, When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last.
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Not to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
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Not to go back, is somewhat to advance, And men must walk at least before they dance.