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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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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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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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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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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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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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