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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Upham
Hampshire
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When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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Friendship's the wine of life.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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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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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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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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