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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
Every
Flows
Delightful
Instruction
Flow
Sweet
Grows
Wisdom
Rill
Inspirational
Thorn

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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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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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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death he walks with nature and her paths are peace.
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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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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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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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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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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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