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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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Edward Young was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts, a series of philosophical writings in blank verse, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements. It was one of the most popular poems of the century, influencing Goethe and Edmund Burke, among many others, and at the end of the century was illustrated by William Blake.
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"The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven’s blessing thinks himself undone."
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"Great let me call him, for he conquered me."
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"Life is the desert, life the solitude; Death joins us to the great majority."
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"Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue."
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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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"Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener changd their principles than shirt."
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"The man that makes a character makes foes."
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"Accept a miracle instead of wit,— See two dull lines with Stanhopes pencil writ."
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"And friend received with thumps upon the back."
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"When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite."
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"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."
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