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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Jaundiced

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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