Edward Young quotes

Procrastination is the thief of time. (Edward Young)
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. View quote
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A Christian is the highest style of man. View quote
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. View quote
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One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. View quote
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight. View quote
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The house of laughter makes a house of woe. View quote
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run. View quote
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life. View quote
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. View quote
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A man of pleasure is a man of pains. (Edward Young)
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise. View quote
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A God all mercy is a God unjust. View quote
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Virtue alone has majesty in death. View quote
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute. View quote
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. View quote
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Truth never was indebted to a lie. View quote
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The man that makes a character, makes foes. View quote
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By night an atheist half believes in a God. View quote
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Wishing of all employments is the worst. View quote
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The course of Nature is the art of God. (Edward Young)
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there. View quote
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. View quote
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Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure. View quote
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Time wasted is existence used is life. View quote
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