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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Friend
Literature
Read
Nature
Truth

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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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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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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss it breaks at every breeze.
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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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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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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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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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