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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Honest
Nobility
Wise
Marks
Lying
Title
Men
Titles
Honesty
Mark
Knave
Lies
Knaves
Fool
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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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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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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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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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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind And while it satisfies, it censures too.
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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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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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