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The man of wisdom is the man of years.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Years
Men
Wisdom

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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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Youth is not rich in time it may be poor Part with it as with money, sparing pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds they can tell.
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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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Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer.
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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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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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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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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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