Edward Young
British poet
Lived from: 1683 - 1765
Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 3 july 1683 Died: 5 april 1765
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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.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Night Thoughts― Edward Young
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