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01c. 1724 AD

Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.

Edward Young / quote

02c. 1724 AD

Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!

Edward Young / quote

03c. 1724 AD

Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

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04c. 1724 AD

Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.

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05c. 1724 AD

The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm.

Edward Young / quote

06c. 1724 AD

Man makes a death which Nature never made.

Edward Young / quote

07c. 1724 AD

And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Edward Young / quote

08c. 1724 AD

Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.

Edward Young / quote

09c. 1724 AD

Man wants but little, nor that little long.

Edward Young / quote

10c. 1724 AD

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Edward Young / quote

11c. 1724 AD

'T is impious in a good man to be sad.

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12c. 1724 AD

A Christian is the highest style of man.

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13c. 1724 AD

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Edward Young / quote

14c. 1724 AD

By night an atheist half believes a God.

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15c. 1724 AD

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.

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16c. 1724 AD

We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!

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17c. 1724 AD

Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

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18c. 1724 AD

While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

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19c. 1724 AD

That life is long which answers life's great end.

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20c. 1724 AD

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

Edward Young / quote

21c. 1724 AD

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

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22c. 1724 AD

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.

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23c. 1724 AD

And all may do what has by man been done.

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24c. 1724 AD

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

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