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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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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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Youth is not rich in time it may be poor Part with it as with money, sparing pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds they can tell.
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