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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Nature
Truth
Friend
Literature
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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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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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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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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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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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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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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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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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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