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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Upham
Hampshire
Death
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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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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The course of Nature is the art of God
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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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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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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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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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