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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 that makes a character, makes foes.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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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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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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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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By all means use some time to be alone.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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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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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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