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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
Never
Fearing
Men
Deaths
Thousand
Death
Makes
Nature
Feels
Made

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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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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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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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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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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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