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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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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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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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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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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
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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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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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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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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
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Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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