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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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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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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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Youth is not rich in time it may be poor Part with it as with money, sparing pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds they can tell.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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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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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly angels could no more.
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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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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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