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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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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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