"Wonder is involuntary praise." — Edward Young
"Wonder is involuntary praise."
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Edward Young
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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 Involuntary Quotes
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage,…
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The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due…
— William J. Brennan
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of…
— John Climacus
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Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is…
— Dalai Lama
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In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or…
— Gerald Brenan
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By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal…
— Strom Thurmond
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In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have…
— Richard John Neuhaus
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and…
— Sigmund Freud
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But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that…
— Unknown Author
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they…
— Vaclav Havel
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