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

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Poet
Upham
Hampshire
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Prayer
Heaven
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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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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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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death he walks with nature and her paths are peace.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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