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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
Fool
Literature
Dies
Cannot
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Men
Fools

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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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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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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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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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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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