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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Bless
Quitting
Despair
Heaven
Pain
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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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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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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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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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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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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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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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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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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