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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
Wills
Doom
Allows
Heaven
Happiness

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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
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