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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
Literature
Running
Hazards
Friend
Worth

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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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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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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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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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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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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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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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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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Time elaborately thrown away.
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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