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Edward Young Quotes
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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety (Edward Young Quotes)
Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new (Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure (Edward Young Quotes)
How must a spirit, late escaped from Earth, the truth of things new blazing in its eyes, look back astonished on the ways of men, whose lives' whole drift is to forget their graves! (Edward Young Quotes)
Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene; resumes them, to prepare us for the next (Edward Young Quotes)
Death is the crown of life; were death denied, poor man would live in vain; were death denied, to live would not be life; were death denied, ev'n fools would wish to die (Edward Young Quotes)
Night is fair virtue's immemorial friend; the conscious moon, through every distant age, has held a lamp to wisdom, and let fall on contemplation's eye her purging ray (Edward Young Quotes)
Who rounded in his palm these spacious orbs... Numerous as glittering gems of morning dew, or sparks from populous cities in a blaze, and set the bosom of old night on fire (Edward Young Quotes)
Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, a fool in fashion, but a fool that's out; his passion for absurdity's so strong, he cannot bear a rival in the wrong (Edward Young Quotes)
Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes expanded, shine with azure, green and gold; how blessings brighten as they take their flight (Edward Young Quotes)
It is falling in love with our own mistaken ideas that makes fools and beggars of half mankind (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)
If you resent, and wish a woman ill, but turn her over one moment to her will (Edward Young Quotes)
Fond man! The vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! And shadow of a shade! (Edward Young Quotes)
Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, united jar, and yet are loth to part (Edward Young Quotes)
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, provides a home from which to run away (Edward Young Quotes)
Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, a soldier should be modest as a maid (Edward Young Quotes)