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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Hazards
Friend
Worth
Literature
Running

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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly angels could no more.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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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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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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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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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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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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