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There buds the promise of celestial worth.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Buds
Bud
Celestial
Promise
Worth

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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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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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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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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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A God alone can comprehend a God.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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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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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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