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Virtue alone has majesty in death. - Edward Young

Virtue alone has majesty in death. – Edward Young

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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. – Edward Young

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Poetry
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. – Edward Young

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Death
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. – Edward Young

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I dont know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment. – Elizabeth Hurley

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The English Bible – a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. – Henry David Thoreau

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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. – Anne Lamott

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