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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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Poet
Upham
Hampshire
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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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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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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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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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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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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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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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