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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Shadow
Vision
Moment
Moments
Dream
Made
Men
Fond
Shade

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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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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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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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