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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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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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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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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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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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The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind And while it satisfies, it censures too.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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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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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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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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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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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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