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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
Environment
Death
Nature
Made
Never
Men
Maketh
Environmental

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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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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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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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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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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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