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Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Elaborately
Thrown
Away
Time

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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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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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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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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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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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