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Nature delights in progress in advance.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Progress
Nature
Delights
Advance
Delight

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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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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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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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