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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Lives
Nature
Never
Rarely
Fancy
Rich
Poor

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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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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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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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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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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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