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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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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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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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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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