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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
Full
Heaven
Eye
Death

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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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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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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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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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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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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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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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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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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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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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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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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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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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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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