YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night vii., Line 199. - If man loses all, when life is lost, He lives...

If man loses all, when life is lost, He lives a coward, or a fool expires. A daring infidel (and such there are, From pride, example, lucre, rage, revenge, Or pure heroical defect of thought,) Of all earth's madmen, most deserves a chain.

YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night vii., Line 199.

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If man loses all, when life is lost, He lives a coward, or a fool expires. A daring infidel (and such there are, From pride, example, lucre, rage, revenge, Or pure heroical defect of thought,) Of all earth's madmen, most deserves a chain.

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