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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. (Edward Young)
Affliction is a good man's shining time. View quote
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Wise it is to comprehend the whole. View quote
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While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun. View quote
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With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue, Forever most divinely in the wrong. View quote
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The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm. View quote
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And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. View quote
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He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed? View quote
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On reason build resolve, that column of true majesty in man. View quote
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As Love alone can exquisitely bless, Love only feels the marvellous of pain; Opens new veins of torture in the soul, And wakes the nerve where agonies are born. View quote
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And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell. (Edward Young)
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour. View quote
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When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite. View quote
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To waft a feather or to drown a fly. View quote
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And waste their music on the savage race. View quote
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There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired; which render mere Prose-men Infidels to their Divinity. View quote
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. View quote
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed. View quote
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Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! View quote
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. View quote
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins. (Edward Young)
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. View quote
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Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies? View quote
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. View quote
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In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom but he who reflects not, never reaps has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing. View quote
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