Alexander Pope idézet

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„A bájok megcsapják a látványt, de az érdemek megnyerik a lelket.”

„Bolondok rohannak be, ahol az angyalok félnek taposni.”

„Egy kis tudás veszélyes dolog. És a sok tudás is.”

„Boldog az az ember, aki nem vár el semmit, mert soha nem fog csalódni.”

„Soha ne keress hibát a hiányzókban.”

„Tégy jót titokban, és pirulj el, ha hírnévre találsz.”

“Thou Great First Cause, least understood
Who all my sense confined
To know but this, that Thou art good
And that myself am blind.”

“Lo these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd,
And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield.
Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day!
So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow
For others' good, or melt at others' woe.”

“I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.”

“Vital spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!”

“I have nothing to say for rhyme, but that I doubt whether a poem can support itself without it, in our language; unless it be stiffened with such strange words, as are likely to destroy our language itself.”

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”

“For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.”