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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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Friendship's the wine of life.
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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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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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
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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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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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Youth is not rich in time it may be poor Part with it as with money, sparing pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds they can tell.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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