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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
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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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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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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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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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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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