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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Life
Impetuous
Base
Inspire
Less
Fear
Death

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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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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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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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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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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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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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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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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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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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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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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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