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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
Friend
Worth
Literature
Running
Hazards

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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
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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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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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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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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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