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Edward Young
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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Upham
Hampshire
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Elaborately
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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
Edward Young
Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
Edward Young
Men are but men we did not make ourselves.
Edward Young
By all means use some time to be alone.
Edward Young
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Edward Young
Wonder is involuntary praise.
Edward Young
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
Edward Young
He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
Edward Young
When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
Edward Young
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Edward Young
He sins against this life, who slights the next.
Edward Young
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.
Edward Young
Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
Edward Young
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
Edward Young
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
Edward Young
Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
Edward Young
Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
Edward Young
Nature delights in progress in advance.
Edward Young
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
Edward Young
Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
Edward Young
