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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
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Yesterdays
Backwards
Yesterday
Smile
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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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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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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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The course of Nature is the art of God
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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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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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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