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Wonder is involuntary praise.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Involuntary
Praise
Wonder

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Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
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Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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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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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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