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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
Praise
Divine
Already
Ready
Path
Prayer
Heaven
Points

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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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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.
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Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer.
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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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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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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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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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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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