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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
Marvellous
Wonder
Nothing
Believe

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Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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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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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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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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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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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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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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