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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
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Upham
Hampshire
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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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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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
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The course of Nature is the art of God
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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly angels could no more.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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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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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
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