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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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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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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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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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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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Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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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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