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Edward Young Quotes

«By all means use some time to be alone.»
«Wonder is involuntary praise»
Author: Edward Young (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Praise, Wonder | Keywords: involuntary
«Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene»
«Procrastination is the thief of time.»
«Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.»
«How blessings brighten as they take their flight.»
«In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.»
«The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.»
«One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.»
«Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.»
Author: Edward Young (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Nature, Truth

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