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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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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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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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Time elaborately thrown away.
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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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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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