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The soft whispers of the God in man.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Whispers
Soft
Conscience
Men

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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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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer.
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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
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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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Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
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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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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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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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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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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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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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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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