Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
Weitere Zitate von Alexander Pope
Zum Autor"Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance."
"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."
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul."
"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."
"Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think."
"The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on."