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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Time
Spilt
Procrastination
Suicide
Destroyed
Blood

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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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