"How blessings brighten as they take their flight."
"How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!"
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Source: Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.9
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