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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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Hope springs eternal.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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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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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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