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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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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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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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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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