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

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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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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind And while it satisfies, it censures too.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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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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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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Time elaborately thrown away.
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