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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Wish
Desire
Believe
Ardently
Soon
Belief

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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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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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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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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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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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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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