Edward Young Quotes

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• Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
• Too low they build who build below the skies.
• How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
• Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
• Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
• A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
• An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
• Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
• Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
• The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
• There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
• 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…
• Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
• Procrastination is the thief of time.
• They only babble who practise not reflection.
• The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
• By all means use some time to be alone.
• The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
• Wishing of all employments is the worst.
• The man that makes a character, makes foes.

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