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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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By all means use some time to be alone.
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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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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Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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