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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
Made
Never
Fearing
Men
Deaths
Thousand
Death
Makes
Nature
Feels

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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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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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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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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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By all means use some time to be alone.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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