Never find fault with the absent.

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Never find fault with the absent.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew. ✨ Alexander Pope (1736). The Works of Alexander Pope, p.134
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 … ▶
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear. ✨ Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Oth … ▶
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more. ✨ 'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 263
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. ✨ Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Es … ▶

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