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• He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

  Edward Young

  Ungrateful, Guilt, May

  Edward Young (1792). “The works of the author of the night-thoughts”, p.259

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• This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.

  Edward Young

  Men, Sky, Sun

  Thomas Otway, Aaron Hill, Edward Young, Nathaniel Lee (1765). “THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. REVENGE. By Dr. Young. RIVAL QUEENS. By Mr. Lee. THEODOSIUS, or the FORCE of LOVE. By Mr. Lee. VENICE PRESERVED. By Mr. Otway. ZARA. By A. Hill. Esq”, p.51

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• Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

  Edward Young

  Life, Inspire, Fear Of Death

  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.103

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• The purpose firm is equal to the deed

  Edward Young

  Deeds, Purpose, Firmness

  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.22

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• Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."

  Edward Young

  Gratitude, Heart, Blessing

  Edward Young, Charles Cowden CLARKE, George Gilfillan (1861). “Young's Night Thoughts. With life and critical dissertation, by the Rev. G. Gilfillan. The text edited by Charles Cowden Clarke”, p.254

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• What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?

  Edward Young

  Revenge, Self, Honor

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• What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

  Edward Young

  Miracle, Satire, Mankind

  Edward Young (1839). “Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job”, p.228

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• Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

  Edward Young

  Wish, Shadow, Age

  Edward Young (1806). “Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]”, p.101

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• In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

  Edward Young

  Disappointment, Age, Youth

  Edward Young (1747). “A vindication of providence: or, A true estimate of human life, discourse i”, p.19

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• Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.

  Edward Young

  Suicide, Procrastination, Blood

  Edward Young (1810). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality”, p.26

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• Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

  Edward Young

  Men, Caught, Cruelty

  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.94

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• Friendship's the wine of life.

  Edward Young

  Friendship, Real, Wine

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.38

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• Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.

  Edward Young

  Passion, Weight, Judgment

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• The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.

  Edward Young

  Time, Loss, Bells

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 1' l. 55

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• He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

  Edward Young

  Life, Desire, Mourn

  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.20

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• We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

  Edward Young

  Time, Thinking, Long

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• Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

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  Life, Sympathy, Death

  The Revenge act 4 (1721) See Nixon 10; Petronius 2

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• Truth never was indebted to a lie

  Edward Young

  Truth, Lying, Literature

  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.226

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• The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

  Edward Young

  Wisdom, Clouds, Titles

  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.227

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• 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.

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  Cutting, Sound, Beam

  Edward Young (1837). “The Complaint and Consolation; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality: To which is Added, The Force of Religion”, p.204

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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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• '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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• 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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• 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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• 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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