Quotes by Edward Young

Edward Young

British poet

Alive from: 1683-1765

Category: Poets (Contemporary)

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  Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

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  All men think all men mortal but themselves.

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  All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

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

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  By night an atheist half believes in God.

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  By night an atheist half-believes a God.

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  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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  Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

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

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

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  None think the great unhappy, but the great.

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  Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

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

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  The man that blushes is not quite a brute.