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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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Novelties
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Still
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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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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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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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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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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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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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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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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