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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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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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