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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Upham
Hampshire
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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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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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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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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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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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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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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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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