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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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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Thinking
Seek
Life
Short
Wish
Death
Back
Long
Time
Shun
Think
Push

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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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Pity swells the tide of love.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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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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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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