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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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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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