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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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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Logic
Mystery
Poetry
Beyond
Literature
Something
Admired
Explained
Prose

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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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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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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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