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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Men
Deaths
Thousand
Death
Makes
Nature
Feels
Made
Never
Fearing

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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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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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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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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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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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