“As Love alone can exquisitely bless,
Love only feels the marvellous of pain;
Opens new veins of torture in the soul,
And wakes the nerve where agonies are born.”

—  Edward Young

The Brothers (1753), Act V, scene i.

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English poet 1683–1765

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