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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Mistakes
Bears
Mistake
Live
Men
Palm
Palms
Miraculous

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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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