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Edward Young Quotes

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But wisdom, awful wisdom! Which inspects, discerns, compares, weighs, separates, infers, seizes the right, and holds it to the last  (Edward Young Quotes) The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie on Earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze  (Edward Young Quotes) Though wrong the mode, comply; more sense is shown in wearing others' follies than our own  (Edward Young Quotes) 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 Quotes) What's female beauty, but an air divine, through which the mind's all gentle graces shine! They, like the Sun, irradiate all between; the body charms, because the soul is seen  (Edward Young Quotes) What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?  (Edward Young Quotes) Art thou not dearer to my eyes than light? Dost thou not circulate through all my veins? Mingle with life, and form my very soul?  (Edward Young Quotes) Talents angel bright, if wanting worth are shining instruments In false ambition's hand, to finish faults Illustrious, and give infamy renown  (Edward Young Quotes) Like lavish ancestors, his earlier years have disinherited his future hours, which starve on orts, and glean their former field  (Edward Young Quotes) Men that would blush at being thought sincere, and feign, for glory, the few faults they went; that love a lie, where truth would pay as well; as if to them, vice shone her own reward  (Edward Young Quotes) Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, on wing impetuous, a black sullen soul... Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! Infamous for suicide  (Edward Young Quotes) An angel’s arm can’t snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can’t confine me there  (Edward Young Quotes) Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; the fool or knave that wears a title lies  (Edward Young Quotes) The booby father craves a booby son, and by Heaven’s blessing thinks himself undone  (Edward Young Quotes) Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; they love a train, they tread each other’s heel  (Edward Young Quotes) Soon as man, expert from time, has found the key of life, it opes the gates of death  (Edward Young Quotes) The first sure symptom of a mind in health is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home  (Edward Young Quotes) Will no superior genius snatch the quill, and save me on the brink from writing ill?  (Edward Young Quotes) Who, for the poor renown of being smart, would leave a sting within a brother’s heart?  (Edward Young Quotes) If you resent, and wish a woman ill, but turn her over one moment to her will  (Edward Young Quotes) Some weep in perfect justice to the dead, as conscious all their love is in arrear  (Edward Young Quotes) Man’s caution often into danger turns, and his guard falling crushes him to death  (Edward Young Quotes) Fond man! The vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! And shadow of a shade!  (Edward Young Quotes) Whatever other learning he wanted, he was master of two books unknown to many profound readers, though books which the last conflagration can alone destroy, I mean the book of nature and that of man  (Edward Young Quotes) Who never loved ne’er suffered; he feels nothing, who nothing feels but for himself alone  (Edward Young Quotes) What’s true beauty but fair virtue’s face, virtue made visible in outward grace  (Edward Young Quotes) To know the world, not love her, is thy point; she gives but little, nor that little long  (Edward Young Quotes) Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, united jar, and yet are loth to part  (Edward Young Quotes) Men drop so fast, ere life’s mid stage we tread, few know so many friends alive, as dead  (Edward Young Quotes) The tree that bears no fruit deserves no name; the man of wisdom is the man of years  (Edward Young Quotes)
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