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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Fool
Idlers
Tomorrow
Reformation
Hold
Procrastination
Heaven
Mortal
Work
Fools
Men
Mortals
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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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 man of wisdom is the man of years.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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