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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Make
Men

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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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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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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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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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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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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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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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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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