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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
Men
Mortals
Reform
Lays
Fool
Idlers
Tomorrow
Reformation
Hold
Procrastination
Heaven
Mortal
Work
Fools

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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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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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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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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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