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Edward Young Inspirational Quotes (130)

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The purpose firm is equal to the deed
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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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Man wants little, nor that little long.
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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind And while it satisfies, it censures too.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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