Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Alexander PopeRead
Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
Interpretation
Embrace what you cannot change and adapt to the shifting circumstances of life.
This quote by Alexander Pope emphasizes the importance of recognizing and accepting the elements of life that are beyond our control, such as fortune and societal norms. It suggests that as conditions change, so too should our understanding and approaches to lifeβs principles and manners, advocating for flexibility and adaptability in the face of change.
In practice
During a motivational speech about facing challenges.
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?
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. Morality is never upheld by a legalized murder.
Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland.
Yesterday is ever jealous of...tomorrow.
This is my philosophy on all life, not just when it comes to love. All the best things are terrifying, but that's why they're the best things. Nothing worth having comes easy. You have to be afraid to want it, afraid to lose it, afraid to try. If you feel that, then you know you're on to a winner.
The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.
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