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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
Whose
Look
Looks
Yesterdays
Backwards
Yesterday
Smile

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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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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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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
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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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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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