When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more. - Edward Young - Quotesmemo.com

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Edward Young

When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!. . . Midway from nothing to the Deity!

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Too low they build who build below the skies.

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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

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Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

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Have confidence. Return. Invoke our Lady and you'll be faithful.

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The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at all, and as such things. The mathematical is this fundamental position we take toward things by which we take up things as already given to us, and as they must and should be given. Therefore, the mathematical is the fundamental presupposition of the knowledge of things.

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