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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
Real
Life
Wine
Friendship

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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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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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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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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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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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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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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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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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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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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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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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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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