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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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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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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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The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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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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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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