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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Maketh
Environmental
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Men

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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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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
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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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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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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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The course of Nature is the art of God
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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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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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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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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