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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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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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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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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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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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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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Pity swells the tide of love.
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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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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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The course of Nature is the art of God
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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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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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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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