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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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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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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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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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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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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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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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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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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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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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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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