Young, Edward quotes
1683-1765 British Poet DramatistVirtue alone has majesty in death.
Young, Edward
Death and Dying
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
Young, Edward
Character
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
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Death and Dying
Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
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Goals
Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the
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Example
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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Greatness
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Fear
The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
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Firmness
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
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Learning
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Young, Edward
Life and Death
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.
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Procrastination
To leave a sting within a brother s heart.
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Service
Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.
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Quotations
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Age and Aging
By night an atheist half believes in God.
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Atheism
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
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Birth
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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Blush