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Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Death
Majesty
Dying
Virtue
Alone

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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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