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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Men
Lustre
Woe
Affliction
Gives
Stars
Night
Giving

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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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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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When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
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Man maketh a death which Nature never 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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