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There buds the promise of celestial worth.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Promise
Worth
Buds
Bud
Celestial

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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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