Edward Young

By all means use some time to be alone.

-Edward Young

alone
Virtue alone has majesty in death.

-Edward Young

alone
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

-Edward Young

death
Virtue alone has majesty in death.

-Edward Young

death
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

-Edward Young

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

-Edward Young

death
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

-Edward Young

fear
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

-Edward Young

friendship
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

-Edward Young

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

-Edward Young

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

-Edward Young

learning
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

-Edward Young

men
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

-Edward Young

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

-Edward Young

trust
One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

-Edward Young

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

-Edward Young

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

-Edward Young

wisdom

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