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He sins against this life, who slights the next.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Slights
Sins
Sin
Next
Life

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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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When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
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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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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss it breaks at every breeze.
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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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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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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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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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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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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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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Pity swells the tide of love.
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