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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
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Christian
Men
Highest

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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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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
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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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Friendship's the wine of life.
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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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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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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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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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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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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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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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The course of Nature is the art of God
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