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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Rill
Wisdom
Thorn
Inspirational
Every
Flows
Delightful
Instruction
Flow
Sweet
Grows

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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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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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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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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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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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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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