Edward Young Quotes

• Some, for renown, on scraps of learning doat, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

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• A foe to God was never true friend to man.

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• The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

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• At thirty man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.

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  Tags in Growth

• By night an atheist half believes a God.

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• The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

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  Tags in Republican, Party, Politician

• Friendship’s the wine of life: but friendship new… is neither strong nor pure.

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  Tags in Wine

• Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

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• A God all mercy is a God unjust.

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  Tags in Mercy

• A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

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  Tags in Friend, Worth

• A Christian is the highest style of man.

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  Tags in Christian, Style

• A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

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  Tags in Reflection

• A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

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  Tags in Man, Pleasure

• All men think all men mortal, but themselves.

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  Tags in Men, Mortal

• By all means use some time to be alone.

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  Tags in Alone

• An angel’s arm can’t snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can’t confine me there.

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  Tags in Angel, Grave

• All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

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  Tags in Men, Mortal

• How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

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  Tags in Blessing

• Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

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  Tags in Learning, Mortals

• Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

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  Tags in Desert, Solitude

Edward Young (57)

Birth:	3rd July, 1683
Death:	5th April, 1765
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

About

Edward Young was born in Upham, near Winchester, UK. He was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts. He was educated at Winchester College, and matriculated in 1702 at New College, Oxford. As a dramatist, Young lacked a theatrical sense, and his plays are rarely performed. Of them, The Revenge is generally thought to be the best.

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