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Man wants little, nor that little long.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Wants
Littles
Little
Long
Men

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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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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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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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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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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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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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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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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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