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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Upham
Hampshire
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Youth is not rich in time it may be poor Part with it as with money, sparing pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds they can tell.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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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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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly angels could no more.
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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