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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Alexander Pope

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Growth Lose Performance Reality Yourself
The laughers are a majority.
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Laughter One Liner
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Character Fame Goodness Life Positive
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Oneself Romantic World
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
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Art Genius Heart Soul Wake Up
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Forget Men Wisdom
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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God Life Nature Oneself Soul
As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Advice Deep Wisdom
Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Lose Love Play Relationship Women
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Fortune Herself Honesty Independence Lose Worst
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Art Chance Dance Easy Learning True Writing
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Death Joy Live Pain Yourself
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Hide Inspirational Oneself Ourselves Rise Thinking
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Myself Parents Poet Sin Writing
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Greatness Man Person World
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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Excellence Learning Mischief Oneself Powerful Science

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