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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
Received
Friendship
Friend
Upon
Back

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Youth is not rich in time it may be poor Part with it as with money, sparing pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds they can tell.
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Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer.
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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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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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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