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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Upham
Hampshire
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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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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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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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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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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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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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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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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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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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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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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