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Truth never was indebted to a lie
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
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Upham
Hampshire
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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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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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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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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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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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