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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
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Hampshire
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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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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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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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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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
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The course of Nature is the art of God
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When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
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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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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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