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Worte sind wie Blätter. Dort, wo sie sich im Überfluß ausbreiten, können die Früchte des Sinns nur spärlich gedeihen.
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, 13 Tage oder 122.704 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.