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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Blushing
Brute
Brutes
Quite
Literature
Men
Blushes

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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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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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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss it breaks at every breeze.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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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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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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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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Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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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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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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