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The man of wisdom is the man of years.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Wisdom
Years
Men

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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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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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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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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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Time elaborately thrown away.
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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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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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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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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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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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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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Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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