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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Brighten
Blessings
Flight
Blessing
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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