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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Today
Satire
Weakness
Tomorrow
Literature
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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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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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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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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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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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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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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