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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Upham
Hampshire
Wish
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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