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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
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Hampshire
Satire
Weakness
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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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Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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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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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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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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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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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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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly angels could no more.
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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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