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And friend received with thumps upon the back.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Back
Received
Friendship
Friend
Upon

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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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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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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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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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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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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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The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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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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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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