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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.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Always
Meet
Epigram
Never
Failing
Epigrams
Sweet
Sting
Quality
Tail
Felt
Tails
Littles
Bees
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Qualities
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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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What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
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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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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death he walks with nature and her paths are peace.
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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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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 once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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