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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Nothing
Believe
Marvellous
Wonder

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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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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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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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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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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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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer.
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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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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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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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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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