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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry
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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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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.
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A Star His Dwelling pointed out below: Ye Pleiades! Arcturus! Mazaroth! And thou, Orion! of still keener Eye! Say, ye, who guide the Wilder'd in the Waves, And bring them out of Tempest into Port!
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As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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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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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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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
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A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires.
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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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Has Matter innate Motion? Then each Atom, Asserting its indisputable Right To dance, would form an Universe of Dust: Has Matter none? Then whence these glorious Forms, And boundless Flights, from Shapeless, and Repos'd?
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O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!
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We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields
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The soul of man was made to walk the skies.
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Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
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Edward Young
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Born:
1683
Died:
April 5, 1765
(aged 82)
Bio:
Edward Young was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts.
Known for:
Night-Thoughts (1710)
Conjectures on original composition
One of Our Submarines
The revenge (1764)
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man
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