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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
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Upham
Hampshire
Blessings
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Infinite
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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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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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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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