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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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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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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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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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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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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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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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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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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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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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