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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
Men
Make

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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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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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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death he walks with nature and her paths are peace.
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