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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
Thousand
Death
Makes
Nature
Feels
Made
Never
Fearing
Men
Deaths

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