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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
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death he walks with nature and her paths are peace.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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