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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Wooden
Dedication
Legs
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death he walks with nature and her paths are peace.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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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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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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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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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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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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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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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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