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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Book
Wooden
Dedication
Legs

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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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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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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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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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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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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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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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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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