Alexander Pope cytaty

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„Co za rozkosz, gdy dusze czują skłonność prawą, gdy miłość jest wolnością, natura ustawą.”

„Ludzi uczyć potrzeba tak, by nie wiedzieli;
O nowych rzeczach mówić, że tylko zapomnieli.”

„Ci, co najbardziej zasługują na pochwały, najlepiej znoszą krytykę.”

„Choć rankiem chwalą to, co potępiają w nocy,
mówią, że ostatnie tylko zdanie w mocy.”

„Jakież to szczęście wieść niewinny żywot.
Być umarłym dla świata i tym się nie martwić.
O! Wieczna jasności wolnego umysłu!
Modlitw jesteś godna, choć prośbami gardzisz.”

„Duma, nigdy niezawodząca przywara głupców.”

„Ten, kto szuka czegoś bezbłędnego, wszędzie myśli o tym, czego nie było, nie ma i nie będzie.”

„Błądzić to rzecz ludzka, przebaczać – boska.”

„Przyrodę i jej prawa skrywał nocy cień.
Bóg rzekł: Newtonie, bądź. I nastał dzień.”

„Jakże szczęśliwi niewinni i bez skazy,
Zapomniany świat ludzi zapomnianych,
Nieśmiertelny czystego umysłu blask,
Modlitwy wysłuchane, życzeń brak.”

„Strasznie zwiodą śmiertelnych korzyści starania, gdy wszystkiego w miłości pragną – prócz kochania.”

„Błogosławieni, którzy nie oczekują niczego, albowiem nigdy się nie rozczarują.”

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.”

“Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;
And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain”

“To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;
To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,
Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold:
For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.”

“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!"”

“If I am right, Thy grace import
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, oh teach my heart
To find that better way!”

“No woman ever hates a man
for being in love with her;
but mainly a woman hates a
man for being her friend.”

“The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!”

“Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.”

“And die of nothing but a rage to live”

“Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”

“I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”

“Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.”

“Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.”

“Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach.”

“An honest man's the noblest work of God”

“This long disease, my life.”

“Whatever is, is right.”

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded”

“What dire offence from amorous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things!”

“chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.”

“Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long Absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.”

“There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell:
We thrive at Westminster on fools like you;
'T was a fat oyster,—live in peace,—adieu.”

“Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.”

“Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But as the world, harmoniously confus'd,
Where order in variety we see,
And where, though all things differ, all agree.”

“To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.”

“Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.”

“I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.”

“And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.”

“Each finding like a friend
Something to blame, and something to commend.”