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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
Death
Great
Life
Joins
Sympathy
Desert
Solitude
Majority
Literature

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When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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