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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Ease
Near
Wish
Fancy

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By all means use some time to be alone.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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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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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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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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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
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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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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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The course of Nature is the art of God
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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