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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Love
Signal
Signals
Shining
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Death

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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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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly angels could no more.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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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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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind And while it satisfies, it censures too.
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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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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