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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Prayer
Heaven
Points
Praise
Divine
Already
Ready
Path

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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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The course of Nature is the art of 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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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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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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Youth is not rich in time it may be poor Part with it as with money, sparing pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds they can tell.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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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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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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