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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
Enjoy
World
Admire
Least

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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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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 soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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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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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss it breaks at every breeze.
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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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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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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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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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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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