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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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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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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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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
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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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The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death he walks with nature and her paths are peace.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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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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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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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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