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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.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Life
Pains
Emptiness
Immortality
Fill
Amply
Comfort
Abasement
Alone
Performs
Pain
Elevate
Soul
Amid

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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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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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