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Affliction is a good man's shining time.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Affliction
Shining
Good
Men
Time

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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