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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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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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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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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death he walks with nature and her paths are peace.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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