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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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By all means use some time to be alone.
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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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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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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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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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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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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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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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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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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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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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