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The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death he walks with nature and her paths are peace.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Death
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Nature
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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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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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly angels could no more.
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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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