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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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More quotes by Edward Young
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.
Edward Young
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
Edward Young
Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
Edward Young
Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
Edward Young
Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
Edward Young
A land of levity is a land of guilt.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
Edward Young
Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young
Time elaborately thrown away.
Edward Young
When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
Edward Young
Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
Edward Young
It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
Edward Young
And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
Edward Young
A God alone can comprehend a God.
Edward Young
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
Edward Young
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Edward Young
When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
Edward Young
Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
Edward Young
One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
Edward Young
Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
Edward Young
