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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
Soft
Conscience
Men
Whispers

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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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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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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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 bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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Men before you have quit smoking - you can 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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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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