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Nature delights in progress in advance.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Upham
Hampshire
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
Edward Young
Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
Edward Young
It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
Edward Young
A Christian is the highest style of man.
Edward Young
Wonder is involuntary praise.
Edward Young
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
Edward Young
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Edward Young
We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
Edward Young
Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
Edward Young
And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
Edward Young
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
Edward Young
Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
Edward Young
The course of Nature is the art of God
Edward Young
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
Edward Young
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
Edward Young
What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
Edward Young
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly angels could no more.
Edward Young
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward Young
Prayer ardent opens heaven.
Edward Young
Man wants little, nor that little long.
Edward Young
