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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Angel
Legions
Atheism
Snatch
Dying
Confine
Arms
Legion
Fear
Grave
Death
Angels
Hands
Graves
Rage

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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss it breaks at every breeze.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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