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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
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Upham
Hampshire
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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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 soft whispers of the God in man.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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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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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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Pity swells the tide of love.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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