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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Wooden
Dedication
Legs
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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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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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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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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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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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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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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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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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