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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Science
Nothing
Midway
Deity
Deities
Evolution

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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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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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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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Youth is not rich in time it may be poor Part with it as with money, sparing pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds they can tell.
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Nature delights in progress in advance.
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By night an atheist half-believes in God.
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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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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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