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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
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Men

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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss it breaks at every breeze.
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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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