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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
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Heaven
Eye
Death
Full

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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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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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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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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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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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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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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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