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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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