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Edward Young, a renowned English poet, was born on July 3, 1683, and died on April 5, 1765. His poetry, characterized by profound philosophical insights and a unique style, has had a lasting impact on literature.

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“If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.”

Ifs Knows World Littles Enjoy Know How Envy Great Things Envied

Author:Edward Young

“To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.”

Knows World Love Giving Littles Long

Author:Edward Young

“Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.”

World Nature Sleep Pay Ready Sweet Tired Fortune Wretched Forsake

Author:Edward Young

“Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.”

World Night Goddess Thrones Majesty

Author:Edward Young

“The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.”

World Ghost Melancholy Echoes Applause Holy Ghost Whispering Renown

Book:The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Source: The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

“Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years of indiscretion, (so let me speak,) snatches the pen, and blots out nature's mark of separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental individuality. The lettered world no longer consists of singulars: it is a medley, a mass; and a hundred books, at bottom, are but one.”

Source: The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran

“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.”

World Earth Hours Wander Curse Tyrants Leisure Cain Atlas

Book:Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

“They most the world enjoy who least admire.”

World Enjoy Admire

Book:The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins