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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Today
Satire
Weakness
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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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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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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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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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death he walks with nature and her paths are peace.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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The course of Nature is the art of God
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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