| 67 Famous Quotes by Edward Young
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“When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.”
Pain Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 500)
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“A man of pleasure is a man of pains.”
Pain Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night VIII, l. 793)
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“'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.”
Sadness Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 676)
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“And can eternity belong to me,
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?”
Eternity Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night I, l. 66)
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“Narcissus is the glory of his race:
For who does nothing with a better grace?”
Grace Quotes Source: Love of Fame (satire IV, l. 85)
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“Final Ruin fiercely drives
Her ploughshare o'er creation.”
Ruin Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 167)
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“Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed”
Age Quotes |
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“All men think all men mortal, but themselves.”
Immortality Quotes |
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“Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.”
Learning Quotes |
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“On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.”
Luxury Quotes |
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“Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.”
Birth Quotes |
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“The purpose firm is equal to the deed.”
Firmness Quotes |
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“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”
Grave Quotes |
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“On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.”
Luxury Quotes |
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“The man that blushes is not quite a brute.”
Men and women Quotes |
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“To "leave a sting within a brother's heart.".”
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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. -Edward Young.”
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