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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
Miraculous
Mistakes
Bears
Mistake
Live
Men
Palm
Palms

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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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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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Youth is not rich in time it may be poor Part with it as with money, sparing pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds they can tell.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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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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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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