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64 Quotes for 'Edward Young' in the Database.
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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.
Topic: Service
Source: None
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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune)
For fevers take an opera in June:
And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold,
A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
Topic: Sickness
Source: Love of Fame (satire V, l. 185)
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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight,
On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . .
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
O Britain! infamous for suicide.
Topic: Suicide
Source: Night Thoughts (night V, l. 436)
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Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup,
That runs for ages without winding up?
Topic: Tongue
Source: Love of Fame (satire I, l. 281)
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Fond man! the vision of a moment made!
Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
Topic: Visions
Source: Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job (l. 187)
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Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates, and calls for more.
Topic: Wealth
Source: Love of Fame (satire V, l. 394)
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Much learning shows how little mortals know:
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
Topic: Wealth
Source: Night Thoughts (night VI, l. 519)
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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
Topic: Wishes
Source: Love of Fame (III)
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Man wants but little, nor that little long;
How soon must he resign his very dust,
Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!
Topic: Wishes
Source: Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 118)
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Wishing, of all employments is the worst.
Topic: Wishes
Source: Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 71)
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He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back,
And says he called another; that arrives,
Meets the same welcome; yet he still calls on;
Till one calls him, who varies not his call,
But holds him fast, in chains of darkness bound,
Till Nature dies, and judgment sets him free;
A freedom far less welcome than this chain.
Topic: Wishes
Source: Night Thoughts (night IV, lines near end)
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What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
Topic: Wishes
Source: Night Thoughts (night V, l. 661)
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Nothing but what astonishes is true.
Topic: Wonders
Source: Night Thoughts (night IX)
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous;
Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
Topic: Wonders
Source: Night Thoughts (night VII)
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