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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
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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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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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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