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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
Dream
Made
Men
Fond
Shade
Shadow
Vision
Moment
Moments

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly angels could no more.
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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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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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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
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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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