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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Great
Life
Joins
Sympathy
Desert
Solitude
Majority
Literature
Death

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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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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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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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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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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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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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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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