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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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