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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Friend
Worth
Literature
Running
Hazards

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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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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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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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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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Pity swells the tide of love.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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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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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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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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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death he walks with nature and her paths are peace.
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