Edward Young Quotes About Literature
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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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They only babble who practise not reflection
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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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Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.
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A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
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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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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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Too low they build who build below the skies.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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