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• The man of wisdom is the man of years.

  Edward Young

  Wisdom, Men, Years

  Edward Young (1815). “The complaint; or, Night thoughts, on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job. With the life of the author [signed G.W.].”, p.99

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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.

  Edward Young

  Sweet, Quality, Tails

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• 'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Past, Heaven

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.23

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• Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

  Edward Young

  Race, Doe, Glory

  'Love of Fame: The Universal Passion' (1725-8) Satire 4, l. 86

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• The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.

  Edward Young

  Father, Son, Blessing

  Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.74

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• Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Honesty, Lying

  Edward Young, Sir Herbert Croft, Sir Herbert Croft (5th bart), Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young ...”, p.134

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• Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.

  Edward Young

  Prayer, Heaven, Path

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.179

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• Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.

  Edward Young

  Men, Views, Brave

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• We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

  Edward Young

  Believe, Wonder, Knows

  Edward Young (1767). “The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts: In Four [i.e. Five] Volumes”, p.225

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• What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.

  Edward Young

  Wish, Ease, Fancy

  Edward Young (1799). “THE POETICAL WORKS OF THE REV. Dr. E. YOUNG WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.”, p.56

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• Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

  Edward Young

  Mistake, Men, Bears

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.16

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• The soft whispers of the God in man.

  Edward Young

  Men, Conscience

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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.

  Edward Young

  Shadow, Shade, Fame

  Edward Young (1806). “Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]”, p.156

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• It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.

  Edward Young

  Strength, Spirit, Disguise

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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.

  Edward Young

  Life, Fate, Men

  Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.34

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• Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

  Edward Young

  Men, Guilt, Lasts

  Edward Young (1730). “Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc”, p.42

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• They build too low who build beneath the skies.

  Edward Young

  Ambition, Sky, Lows

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• Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

  Edward Young

  Science, Deities, Evolution

  Edward Young (1851). “Night thoughts on life, death and immortality: With a memoir of the author, a critical view of his writings, and explanatory notes”, p.77

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• A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?

  Edward Young

  Doctors, Alternatives, Strange

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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.

  Edward Young

  Thinking, Soul, Solitude

  William Danby, Edward Young (1832). “Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them”, p.15

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• A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Lying, Skills

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”

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• Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

  Edward Young

  Men, Wife, Soul

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.25

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• The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

  Edward Young

  Blood, Knives, Tears

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.243

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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.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Soul, Comfort

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1803). “Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life”, p.172

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• Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.

  Edward Young

  Tyrants, Leisure, Atlas

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.25

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