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Edward Young
July 3, 1683 - April 5, 1765
Nationality: English
Category: Poet
Subcategory: English Poet

They only babble who practise not reflection.

   

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

   

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

   

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

   

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

   

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

   

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

   

Procrastination is the thief of time.

   

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

   

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

   

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

   

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

   

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

   

All men think all men mortal, but themselves.

   

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.

   

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

   

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

   

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

   

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

   

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

   

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