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is the good man’s shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest rays; as night to stars, woe lnstre gives to man.

Affliction is the good man’s shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest rays; as night to stars, woe lnstre gives to man.

is a builder of bridges across the gulf of death.

Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death.

is the shame of immortality, and is itself a shadow.

Fame is the shame of immortality, and is itself a shadow.

Friendship Friendship Is the wine of life.

is an import; joy is an exchange; Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two; Rich fruit 1 Heaven planted! never pluck’d by one.

Joy is an import; joy is an exchange; Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two; Rich fruit 1 Heaven planted! never pluck’d by one.

is pain ; takes off our chariot wheels ; how heavily we drag the load of life.

Leisure is pain ; takes off our chariot wheels ; how heavily we drag the load of life.

is the triumph of our mouldering clay; death, of the spirit infinite! divine.

Life is the triumph of our mouldering clay; death, of the spirit infinite! divine !

O majestic night! nature's great ancestor

is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled. And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled. And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

is oar helmet, wit is but the plume. The plume exposes, ’til 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.

Sense is oar helmet, wit is but the plume. The plume exposes, ’til 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.

is to make oneself superior to the checks of Nature and to dare to make one's life the victim of his reason, in fact to defy his reason.

He who, superior to the checks of Nature, dares make his life the victim of his reason, does in some sort that reason deify, and take a flight at heaven

is eternity. Pregnant with all eternity can give; Pregnant with all that makes Archangels smile. Who murders time, he crushes in the birth A power ethereal, only not adored.

Time is eternity. Pregnant with all eternity can give; Pregnant with all that makes Archangels smile. Who murders time, he crushes in the birth A power ethereal, only not adored.

is yesterday returned; returned Full-powered to cancel, expiate, raise, adorn, And reinstate us on the rock of peace : Let it not share its predecessor’s fate. Nor like its elder sisters die a fool.

To-day is yesterday returned; returned Full-powered to cancel, expiate, raise, adorn, And reinstate us on the rock of peace : Let it not share its predecessor’s fate. Nor like its elder sisters die a fool.

is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

is a satire on today. And shows its weakness.

To-morrow is a satire on to-day. And shows its weakness.

Edward Young

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