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Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.
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Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?
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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
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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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Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.
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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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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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Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.
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However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos.
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The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.
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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor.
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Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.
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Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.
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This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.
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We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too.
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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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Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
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Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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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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Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.
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Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.
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Edward Young
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Born:
1683
Died:
April 5, 1765
(aged 82)
Bio:
Edward Young was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts.
Known for:
Night-Thoughts (1710)
Conjectures on original composition
One of Our Submarines
The revenge (1764)
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