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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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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Drop
Clouds
Seek
Wealth
Wisdom
May
Estates
Must
Sought
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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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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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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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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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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