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By all means use some time to be alone.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Literature
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Means
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Alone

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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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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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