Edward Young quotes - page 2

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. (Edward Young)
None think the great unhappy, but the great. View quote
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All men think all men mortal, but themselves. View quote
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Too low they build who build beneath the stars. View quote
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Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven. View quote
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Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay. View quote
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'T is impious in a good man to be sad. View quote
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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind. View quote
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Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer. View quote
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile. View quote
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He mourns the dead who lives as they desire. (Edward Young)
The man of wisdom is the man of years. View quote
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Night, sable goddess from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. View quote
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And all may do what has by man been done. View quote
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There buds the promise of celestial worth. View quote
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. View quote
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear. View quote
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ. View quote
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. View quote
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Ambition powerful source of good and ill. View quote
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And friend received with thumps upon the back. (Edward Young)
Time elaborately thrown away. View quote
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By all means use some time to be alone. View quote
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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel. View quote
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We take no note of time but from its loss. View quote
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