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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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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind And while it satisfies, it censures too.
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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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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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