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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Powerful
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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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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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind And while it satisfies, it censures too.
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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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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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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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