"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,……" — Edward Young
"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."
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Edward Young
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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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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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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
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More Dote Quotes
This quote is filed under Dote Quotes,
one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and…
— William Shakespeare
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I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.
— Walt Whitman
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Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth…
— Homer
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Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
— James Russell Lowell
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Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.
— Douglas William Jerrold
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What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon,
— Thomas Burnet
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I dote on his very absence.
— William Shakespeare
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She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis…
— William Shakespeare
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Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as…
— William Shakespeare
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I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.
— Walt Whitman
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I have the best immensely colossal brother in the world! He is a godly bellwether, astonishing role model and gives…
— Apoorv Awasthi
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