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They most the world enjoy who least admire.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
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World
Admire
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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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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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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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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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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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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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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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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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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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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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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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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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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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