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The course of Nature is the art of God

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Upham
Hampshire
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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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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Friendship's the wine of life.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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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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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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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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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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