The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on.
Weitere Zitate von Alexander Pope
Zum Autor"Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach."
"Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er."
"A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again."
"Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state."
"Wise wretch! With pleasures too refined to please,With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,With too much quickness ever to be taught,With too much thinking to have common thought:You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live."
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul."