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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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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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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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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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Youth is not rich in time it may be poor Part with it as with money, sparing pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds they can tell.
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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