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Prayer ardent opens heaven.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Ardent
Opens
Prayer
Heaven

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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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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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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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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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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.
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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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