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Edward Young Inspirational Quotes (130)

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
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Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
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The course of Nature is the art of God
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly angels could no more.
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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
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Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
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When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
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