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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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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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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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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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