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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Combats
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Wounds
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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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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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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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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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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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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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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