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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
Admire
Least
Enjoy
World

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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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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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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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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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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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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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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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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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