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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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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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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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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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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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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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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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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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