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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Combats
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Wounds
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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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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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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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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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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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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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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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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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