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The man that makes a character, makes foes.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Foes
Foe
Makes
Character
Men

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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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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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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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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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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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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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