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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
Celestial
Promise
Worth
Buds
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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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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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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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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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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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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