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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Friend
Literature
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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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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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
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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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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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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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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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