Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Alexander PopeRead
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
Interpretation
Our perceptions are often colored by our experiences and prejudices.
This quote suggests that an individual's viewpoint is heavily influenced by their own biases and experiences. Just as a jaundiced eye perceives everything as yellow due to a physical condition, people's perspectives can be similarly distorted by their personal feelings, beliefs, and past experiences, leading to a subjective understanding of reality.
In practice
In a discussion about how personal biases affect decision-making.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;_x000D_ _x000D_ Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.
We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our moral character. In ancient Greece and Rome, ethical choices about food were considered at least as significant as ethical choices about sex.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.
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