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They most the world enjoy who least admire.

Edward Young

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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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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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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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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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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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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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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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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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