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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Dies
Cannot
May
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Men
Fools
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Literature

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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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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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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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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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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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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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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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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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