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Wonder is involuntary praise.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
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Upham
Hampshire
Involuntary
Praise
Wonder
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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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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Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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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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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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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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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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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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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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