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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Tomorrow
Literature
Shows
Today
Satire
Weakness

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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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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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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind And while it satisfies, it censures too.
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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