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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
Fancy
Ease
Near
Wish

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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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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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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss it breaks at every breeze.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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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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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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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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