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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Brighten
Blessings
Flight
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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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