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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
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Groan
Misers
Weep
Bread
Gold

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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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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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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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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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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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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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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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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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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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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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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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