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Wishing of all employments is the worst

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Literature
Wish
Employments
Wishing
Employment
Worst

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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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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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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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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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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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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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The course of Nature is the art of God
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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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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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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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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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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