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The spirit walks of every day deceased.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Walks
Spirit
Every
Deceased

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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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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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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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