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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Flow
Sweet
Grows
Wisdom
Rill
Inspirational
Thorn
Every
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Delightful
Instruction

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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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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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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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