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Friendship's the wine of life.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Wine
Friendship
Real
Life

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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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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 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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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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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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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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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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Pity swells the tide of love.
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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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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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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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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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