"The man that blushes is not quite a…" — Edward Young
"The man that blushes is not quite a brute."
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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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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 Blushes Quotes
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one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.
— Gregor Mendel
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
— Khalil Gibran
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Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
— Seneca the Younger
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Blushes cannot be counterfeited.
— Margaret of Valois
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Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes.
— Henry James
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Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year . . The Rose still…
— Samuel Garth
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Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
— Mark Twain
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Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way,…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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