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A God alone can comprehend a God.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Comprehend
God
Alone

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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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By all means use some time to be alone.
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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 spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss it breaks at every breeze.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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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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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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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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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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