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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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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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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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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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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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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss it breaks at every breeze.
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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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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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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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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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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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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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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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