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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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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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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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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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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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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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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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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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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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