"A soul without reflection, like a pile Without……" — Edward Young
"A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs."
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55 Quotes by Edward Young
Edward Young has 55 quotes on this site.
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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Too low they build who build below the skies.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes…
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
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More Inhabitant Quotes
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one of 36 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.
— Henry David Thoreau
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If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were…
— Hans Bethe
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a…
— Hannah More
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No matter how advanced society becomes, institutionally or technologically, a house in which nature can be sensed represents for me…
— Tadao Ando
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Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its…
— Samuel Johnson
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What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I…
— John Frusciante
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The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer…
— Robert Burns
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We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful…
— Carl Sagan
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I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a…
— Faith Hunter
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God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its…
— Dallas Willard
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Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity…
— Pope Francis
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A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the…
— Rebecca Solnit
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