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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
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Deed
Firm
Deeds
Equal
Purpose
Firmness

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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
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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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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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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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