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Wonder is involuntary praise.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Upham
Hampshire
Involuntary
Praise
Wonder
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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death he walks with nature and her paths are peace.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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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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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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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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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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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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The course of Nature is the art of God
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