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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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Hampshire
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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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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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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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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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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