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The soft whispers of the God in man.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Conscience
Men
Whispers
Soft

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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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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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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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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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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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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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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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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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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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