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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 course of Nature is the art of God
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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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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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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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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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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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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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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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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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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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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly angels could no more.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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