Frases de Alexander Pope

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“As mulheres manejam os homens como os bons jogadores de xadrez manejam os peões; não tocam num sem terem a vista fixa noutro, que pode dar melhor resultado.”

“Um homem nunca deve sentir vergonha de admitir que errou, o que é apenas dizer, noutros termos, que hoje ele é mais inteligente do que era ontem.”

“A luz e as trevas estão misturadas no caos do homem.”

“A esperança brota eternamente no peito do homem. Ele nunca é, mas espera sempre ser feliz.”

“O divertimento é a felicidade daqueles que não sabem pensar.”

“Feliz do homem que não espera nada, pois nunca terá desilusões.”

“Basta sujar um livro com notas e observações para se adquirir o título de homem de letras.”

“O estudo interessante para o homem é o próprio homem.”

“Conhece-te, deixa a Deus os mistérios que lhe apetecem; o homem é o único estudo de que os homens carecem.”

“É preciso ensinar aos homens como se não ensinasse realmente,
propondo-lhes coisas que não sabem como se as tivessem apenas esquecido.”

“A falta de modéstia é falta de senso comum.”

“Sentir raiva é vingar-se das falhas dos outros em si próprio”

“Todos os deveres humanos se encerram nestes dois pontos: resignação à vontade do Criador e caridade para com os nossos semelhantes.”

“Quem confessa os seus erros é mais sábio hoje do que ontem.”

“Errar é humano; perdoar é divino.”

“Uma pessoa honesta é a obra mais maravilhosa de Deus.”

“Feliz é a inocente vestal; Esquecendo o mundo e sendo por ele esquecida. Brilho eterno de uma mente sem lembranças; Toda prece é ouvida, toda graça se alcança.”

“Feliz quem seus prazeres e cuidados a alguns hectares paternos limita, contente em respirar o ar nativo em sua própria terra.”

“Não conheci ninguém em minha vida que não tivesse conseguido suportar como um perfeito cristão as desgraças alheias.”

“Quem se encontra empenhado numa controvérsia preocupa-se tanto com a verdade quanto um caçador se preocupa com a lebre.”

“A verdadeira facilidade de escrever provém da arte e não do acaso.”

“Quem ama ardentemente, também no ódio é violento.”

“A ira faz com que nós paguemos culpas alheias.”

“Não é um lábio ou um olho o que chamamos de beleza,
Mas a força global e o resultado final de todas as partes.”

“Aquele que diz uma mentira não sabe a tarefa que assumiu, porque está obrigado a inventar vinte vezes mais para sustentar a certeza da primeira.”

“As palavras são como as folhas; e quanto mais abundam, mais raramente se encontram entre elas muitos frutos do bom senso.”

“Quem pensa ver algo sem falhas
pensa naquilo que nunca existiu, que não existe, e que nunca existirá.”

“Quem pode decidir quando os doutores discordam?”

“O partido é a loucura de muitos em proveito de poucos.”

“Uma mente nobre tem vergonha de não se arrepender.”

“O tempo a tudo vence. Obedeçamos, pois, ao tempo.”

“Alguns louvam de manhã o que criticam de noite, mas têm sempre por certa a última opinião.”

“Encantos impressionam a vista, mas o mérito ganha o coração.”

“Razão do homem: se a não ouvimos, tudo é escuro. Se a ouvimos demais, nada é seguro.”

“A natureza e as leis da natureza estavam imersas em trevas; Deus disse Haja Newton e tudo se iluminou”

“Estar com raiva é vingar-se das falhas dos outros em nós mesmos.”

“Os que merecem elogios são os que melhor sabem suportar as censuras.”

“Algumas pessoas nunca aprendem nada, porque entendem tudo muito depressa.”

“Comprar livros, como fazem certas pessoas que se não servem deles, somente porque foram impressos por um impressor célebre, é pouco mais ou menos como se alguém comprasse fatos que não lhe servissem, simplesmente por terem sido feitos por um alfaiate de fama.”

“Deixemos que os tolos discutam formas de governo. O governo mais bem administrado é sempre o melhor.”

“Dizer o que pensa é o direito de todo homem livre, na paz e na guerra, no conselho e na luta.”

“Um pouco de cultura é uma coisa perigosa.”

“Feliz é o destino da inocente vestal”

“True politeness consists in the being easy one-self, and making every body about one as easy as we can.”

“Methinks God has punish'd the Avaritious as he often punishes sinners, in their own way, in the ver sin itself: the thrist of gain was their crime, that thrist continued became their punishment and ruin. As for the few who have the good fortune to remain with half of what they imagined they had (among whom is your humble servantl, I would have them sensible of their felicity, and convinced of the truth of old Hesiod's maxim, who, after half his estate was swallowed by the Directors of those days, resolv'd, that half to be more than the whole.”

“The stoic husband was the glorious thing.
The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,
And lov'd his country.”

“This casket India's glowing gems unlocks
And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.”

“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”

“Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.”

“Say, is not absence death to those who love?”

“Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.”

“Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell,
For sober, studious days!”

“Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.”

“How vast a memory has Love!”

“Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain,
Here earth and water seem to strive again,
Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised,
But, as the world, harmoniously confused:
Where order in variety we see,
And where, though all things differ, all agree.”

“Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.”

“Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown;
O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!”

“Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade:
Where'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise,
And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.”

“Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake,
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.”

“There various news I heard of love and strife,
Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,
Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,
Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,
Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,
Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,
Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,
The fall of favourites, projects of the great,
Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:
All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.”

“I find myself just in the same situation of mind you describe as your own, heartily wishing the good, that is the quiet of my country, and hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”

“A god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.”

“Well, if our author in the wife offends
He has a husband that will make amends;
He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving,
And sure such kind good creatures may be living.”

“On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.”

“Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.”

“The famous Lord Hallifax (though so much talked of) was rather a pretender to taste, than really possessed of it.—When I had finished the two or three first books of my translation of the Iliad, that lord, "desired to have the pleasure of hearing them read at his house." Addison, Congreve, and Garth, were there at the reading.—In four or five places, Lord Hallifax stopped me very civilly; and with a speech, each time of much the same kind: "I beg your pardon, Mr. Pope, but there is something in that passage that does not quite please me.—Be so good as to mark the place, and consider it a little at your leisure.—I am sure you can give it a little turn."—I returned from Lord Hallifax's with Dr. Garth, in his chariot; and as we were going along, was saying to the doctor, that my lord had laid me under a good deal of difficulty, by such loose and general observations; that I had been thinking over the passages almost ever since, and could not guess at what it was that offended his lordship in either of them.—Garth laughed heartily at my embarrassment; said, I had not been long enough acquainted with Lord Hallifax, to know his way yet: that I need not puzzle myself in looking those places over and over when I got home. "All you need do, (said he) is to leave them just as they are; call on Lord Hallifax two or three months hence, thank him for his kind observations on those passages; and then read them to him as altered. I have known him much longer than you have, and will be answerable for the event."—I followed his advice; waited on Lord Hallifax some time after: said, I hoped he would find his objections to those passages removed[; ] read them to him exactly as they were at first; and his lordship was extremely pleased with them, and cried out, "Ay now, Mr. Pope, they are perfectly right! nothing can be better."”

“By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed,
By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed,
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned,
By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.”

“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.”

“Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn,
And liquid amber drop from every thorn.”

“On all the line a sudden vengeance waits,
And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.”

“For he lives twice who can at once employ
The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.”

“Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell!
Thy fools no more I'll tease:
This year in peace, ye critics, dwell,
Ye harlots, sleep at ease!”