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• A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires.

  Edward Young

  God, Joy, Inspire

  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.168

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• They only babble who practise not reflection

  Edward Young

  Reflection, Literature, Self Reflection

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• On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

  Edward Young

  Inspirational, Sweet, Flow

  Edward Young (1792). “The works of the author of the night-thoughts”, p.81

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• Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

  Edward Young

  Death, Tyrants, Portraits

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• Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

  Edward Young

  Friendship, Strong, Wine

  Edward Young (1856). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.135

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• Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

  Edward Young

  Learning, Thinking, Training

  Edward Young (1799). “The poetical works of ... E. Young. With the life of the author. Cooke's ed”, p.37

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• And friend received with thumps upon the back.

  Edward Young

  Friendship

  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.354

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• A prince indebted is a fortune made.

  Edward Young

  Made, Fortune, Indebted

  Edward Young (1756). “The Brothers: A Tragedy”, p.6

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• Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

  Edward Young

  Disease, Idiot, Vain

  Edward Young, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edward Young: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.107

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• This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.

  Edward Young

  Strong, Twilight, Theatre

  Edward Young (1823). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem”, p.4

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• Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Giving, Empires

  Edward Young (1811). “The Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young”, p.80

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• Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.

  Edward Young

  Children, Revenge, Fire

  Edward Young (1825). “The Revenge: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.12

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• [The] public path of life Is dirty.

  Edward Young

  Dirty, Path, Life Is

  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.219

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• Affliction is a good man's shining time.

  Edward Young

  Men, Hard Times, Tough Times

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• None think the great unhappy, but the great.

  Edward Young

  Greatness, Thinking, Unhappy

  Edward Young, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edward Young: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.111

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• How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
  How commentators each dark passage shun,
  And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

  Edward Young

  Dark, Science, Sun

  'Love of Fame: The Universal Passion' (1725-8) Satire 7, l. 97.

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• One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

  Edward Young

  Eye, Heaven

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”

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• Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

  Edward Young

  Men, Made, Save Mother Earth

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• Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.

  Edward Young

  Soldier, Bombs, Maids

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.293

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• A dedication is a wooden leg.

  Edward Young

  Book, Dedication, Legs

  Edward Young (1752). “Love of fame, the universal passion. In 7 satires [by E. Young].”, p.69

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• By all means use some time to be alone.

  Edward Young

  Mean, Use, Literature

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• Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

  Edward Young

  Life, Thinking, Years

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• Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

  Edward Young

  Nature, Literature, Mystery Of Nature

  Edward Young (1811). “The Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young”, p.226

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• A God all mercy is a God unjust.

  Edward Young

  Unjust, Injustice, Mercy

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 4' l. 233

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• Nothing but what astonishes is true.

  Edward Young

  Wonder

  Edward Young, George Gilfillan (1853). “Night Thoughts”, p.280

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