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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
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Smiles
Men
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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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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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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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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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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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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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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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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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By all means use some time to be alone.
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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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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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