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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.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Shining
Scene
Lustre
Gives
Conceals
Stars
Brightest
Night
Woe
Giving
Affliction
Good
Rays
Men
Prosperity

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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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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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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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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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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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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 soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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