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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Deity
Deities
Evolution
Science
Nothing
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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly angels could no more.
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