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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
Palm
Palms
Miraculous
Mistakes
Bears
Mistake
Live
Men

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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
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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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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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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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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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