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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
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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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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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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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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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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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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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