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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
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Upham
Hampshire
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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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.
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind And while it satisfies, it censures too.
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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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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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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