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Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Wise
Defer
Madness

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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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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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