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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
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Upham
Hampshire
Fool
Literature
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Cannot
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Men
Fools

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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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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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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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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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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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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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