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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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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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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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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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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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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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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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Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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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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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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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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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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