Edward Young quotes - page 4

To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain. (Edward Young)
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. View quote
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Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay And if in death still lovely, lovelier there Far lovelier pity swells the tide of love. View quote
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'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand, Scripture authentic uncorrupt by man. View quote
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. View quote
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How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. View quote
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At thirty man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves then dies the same. View quote
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What ardently we wish we soon believe. View quote
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They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge. View quote
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair. View quote
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In records that defy the tooth of time. (Edward Young)
Great let me call him, for he conquered me. View quote
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. View quote
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Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight,-a naked human heart. View quote
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That life is long which answers life's great end. View quote
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Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens. View quote
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For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem. View quote
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Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt. View quote
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"I've lost a day!"-the prince who nobly cried, Had been an emperor without his crown. View quote
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Friendship's the wine of life. View quote
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. (Edward Young)
Wonder is involuntary praise. View quote
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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. View quote
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Prayer ardent opens heaven. View quote
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows. View quote
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