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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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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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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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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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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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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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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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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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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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