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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
Deities
Evolution
Science
Nothing
Midway
Deity

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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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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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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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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 man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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