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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Whose
Look
Looks
Yesterdays
Backwards
Yesterday
Smile

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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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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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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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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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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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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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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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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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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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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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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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