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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Yesterday
Smile
Whose
Look
Looks
Yesterdays
Backwards

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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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Youth is not rich in time it may be poor Part with it as with money, sparing pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds they can tell.
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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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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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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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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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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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