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Best Quotes by Edward Young (Top 10)
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
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We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?
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More Edward Young Quotes
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Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
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'T is impious in a good man to be sad.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?
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By night an atheist half believes in a God.
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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
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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.
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To "leave a sting within a brother's heart.".
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All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
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On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.
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Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene
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A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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Procrastination is the thief of time.
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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