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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Heaven
Pain
Quits
Bless
Quitting
Despair

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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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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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