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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
Death
Love
Signal
Signals
Shining
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Mark

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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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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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