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Edward Young Inspirational Quotes (130)

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Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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Youth is not rich in time it may be poor Part with it as with money, sparing pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds they can tell.
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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Pity swells the tide of love.
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
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It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst
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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss it breaks at every breeze.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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