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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
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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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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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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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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
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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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