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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Upham
Hampshire
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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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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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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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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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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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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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