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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
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Hampshire
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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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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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