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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
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Upham
Hampshire
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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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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind And while it satisfies, it censures too.
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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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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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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