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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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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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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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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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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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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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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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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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