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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Conceal
Talk
Language
Nature
Ends
Mind
Men

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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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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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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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