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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Doom
Allows
Heaven
Happiness
Wills

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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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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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