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Truth never was indebted to a lie
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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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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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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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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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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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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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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