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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
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Ambition
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Powerful
Good

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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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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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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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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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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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