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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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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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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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