"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot…" — Edward Young
"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."
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55 Quotes by Edward Young
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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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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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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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More Cannot Die Quotes
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I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his…
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The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.
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If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it,…
— Rajneesh
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Change the emphasis, turn your attention around. If you become concerned with death, your life comes to be revealed to…
— Rajneesh
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Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.
— Roberto Benigni
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal…
— Franz Grillparzer
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The ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death,…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.
— Fernando de Rojas
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Since this life is God's and cannot die, it follows that everyone born anew into possessing this life is said…
— Watchman Nee
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