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A Christian is the highest style of man.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Highest
Style
Christian
Men

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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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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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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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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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The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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