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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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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss it breaks at every breeze.
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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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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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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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