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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Many
Years
Buries
Life
Deaths
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Month
Chains
Months
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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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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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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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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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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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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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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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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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
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