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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
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Upham
Hampshire
Comprehend
God
Alone
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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The soft whispers of the God in man.
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't 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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The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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They most the world enjoy who least admire.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
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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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And friend received with thumps upon the back.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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