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Edward Young - From the Aging category:
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Ambition category:
Ambition! powerful source of good and ill! (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Construction category:
Too low they build who build below the skies. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Contemplation category:
They only babble who practise not reflection. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Desire category:
Like our shadows, / Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Ego category:
All men think all men mortal, but themselves. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Fame category:
Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Fire category:
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, / As tapers waste the moment they take fire (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Future category:
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Genius category:
However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts – let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Gratitude category:
How blessings brighten as they take their flight. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Happiness category:
None think the great unhappy, but the great. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Joy category:
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Miracles category:
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)
Edward Young - From the Nature category:
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Nature category:
The course of Nature is the art of God. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Originality category:
We are all born originals – why is it so many of us die copies? (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Poetry category:
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Procrastination category:
-b.1683 d.1765...
Procrastination is the thief of time: / Year after year it steals, till all are fled, / And to the mercies of a moment leaves / The vast concerns of an eternal scene (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Quotations category:
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, / And think they grow immortal as they quote. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Religion category:
By night an atheist half believes in a God. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Solitude category:
By all means use some time to be alone. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Truth category:
Truth never was indebted to a lie. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Wisdom category:
Wise it is to comprehend the whole. (Edward Young)
Edward Young - From the Wonder category:
Wonder is involuntary praise. (Edward Young)
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