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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Blessing
Bled
Infinite
Amid
Heart
Foremost
Blessings
List
Lists
Stands
Gratitude

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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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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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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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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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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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