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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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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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