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Edward Young quotes (28) Gold glitters most where virtue shines no more As stars from absent suns have leave to shine. Edward Young Category: Gold Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed. Edward Young Category: Age Still seems it strange that thou shouldst live forever: Is it less strange that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle and that no more. Edward Young Category: Live There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence importance or worth. Edward Young Category: Advice Some for renown on scraps of learning dote And think they grow immortal as they quote. Edward Young Category: Quotations A man of pleasure is a man of pains. Edward Young Category: Pleasure Learning makes a man fit company for himself. Edward Young Category: Company The course of Nature is the art of God. Edward Young Category: Art Where boasting ends there dignity begins. Edward Young Category: Dignity The man that blushes is not quite a brute. Edward Young Category: Blushing For her own breakfast shell project a scheme Nor take her tea without a stratagem. Edward Young Category: Tea Horace appears in good humor while he censures and therefore his censure has the more weight as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion. Edward Young Category: Humor Tomorrow is a satire on today And shows its weakness. Edward Young Category: Satire They build too low who build beneath the skies. Edward Young Category: Ambition The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. Edward Young Category: Strike Procrastination is the thief of time Edward Young Category: Procrastination Man wants but little; nor that little long. Edward Young Category: Life A God all mercy is a God unjust. Edward Young Category: Mercy Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile. Edward Young Category: Unsorted By night an atheist half believes a God. Edward Young Category: Night Be wise to-day; t is madness to defer. Edward Young Category: Wise They that on glorious ancestors enlarge Produce their debt instead of their discharge. Edward Young Category: Ancestors Virtue alone out builds the pyramids: Her monuments shall last when Egypts fall. Edward Young Category: Monument The purpose firm is equal to the deed. Edward Young Category: Firm All men think all men mortal but themselves. Edward Young Category: Immortality Time wasted is existence; used is life. Edward Young Category: Time He mourns the dead who lives as they desire. Edward Young Category: Mourn Thoughts shut up want air And spoil like bales unopend to the sun. Edward Young Category: Thief |
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