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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
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Poet
Upham
Hampshire
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Blessings
Flight
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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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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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The course of Nature is the art of God
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When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind And while it satisfies, it censures too.
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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss it breaks at every breeze.
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Youth is not rich in time it may be poor Part with it as with money, sparing pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds they can tell.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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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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