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Gott schickt das Böse nicht: verstehn wir es recht, das Böse, das uns trifft, ist das allgemein Gute.
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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, 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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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.