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A dedication is a wooden leg.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Wooden
Dedication
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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss it breaks at every breeze.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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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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Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer.
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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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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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When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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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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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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