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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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Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Men
Novelty
Love
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Novelties
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Smiles
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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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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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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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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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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