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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Prayer
Heaven
Ardent
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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
Edward Young
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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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
Edward Young
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
Edward Young
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
Edward Young
By all means use some time to be alone.
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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
Edward Young
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.
Edward Young
Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
Edward Young
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
Edward Young
He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
Edward Young
