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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
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Wish
Declines
Like
Shadows
Decline
Wishes
Aging
Shadow
Sun
Age
Lengthen

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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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