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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
Yesterday
Smile
Whose
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Looks
Yesterdays
Backwards

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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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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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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind And while it satisfies, it censures too.
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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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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly angels could no more.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
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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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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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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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