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• A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

  Edward Young

  Men, Hypocrisy, Foam

  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.160

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• Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

  Edward Young

  Despise, Thyself

  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.131

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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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• 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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• There buds the promise of celestial worth.

  Edward Young

  Promise, Bud, Celestial

  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.410

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• The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.

  Edward Young

  Echoes, Whispering, World

  Edward Young (1824). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.227

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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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• We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too.

  Edward Young

  Dream, Names, Wish

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.179

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• As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

  Edward Young

  Stars, Night, Men

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.283

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• They only babble who practise not reflection

  Edward Young

  Reflection, Literature, Self Reflection

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• Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.

  Edward Young

  Time, Roots, Empires

  Edward Young (1768). “The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Added, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job..”, p.7

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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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• 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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• In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

  Edward Young

  Age, Life Is, Esteem

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• Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

  Edward Young

  Life, Nature, Sleep

  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.3

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• Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

  Edward Young

  Splinters, Fame, Satire

  Edward Young, Sir Herbert Croft, Sir Herbert Croft (5th bart), Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young ...”, p.222

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• I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.

  Edward Young

  Thinking, June, Practice

  Edward Young (1802). “The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts”, p.127

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• Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

  Edward Young

  Hope, Two, Miracle

  Edward Young (1852). “The Poetical Works”, p.48

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• When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

  Edward Young

  Fall, Autumn, Men

  Edward Young, Dr. Doran (John) (1854). “Imperium Pelagi, a naval lyric. Epistles to Mr. Pope, concerning the authors of the age. Sea-piece. The foreign address; or the best argument for peace. Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. An epistle to the right hon. Sir Robert Walpole. The old man's relapse. Resignation. Tragedies. Prose works”, p.263

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• Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone.

  Edward Young

  Life, Moving, Slides

  Edward Young (1719). “The dramatic works of Edward Young”, p.72

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• We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry

  Edward Young

  Smile, Mind, Dry

  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.105

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• Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.

  Edward Young

  Shining, Prosperity, Comets

  Edward Young (1822). “The Complaint; Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality ... To which is Added, A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job”, p.115

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• When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Heaven, Despair

  William Danby, Edward Young (1832). “Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them”, p.102

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• In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor.

  Edward Young

  Ocean, Sleep, Water

  Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.159

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• Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

  Edward Young

  Angel, Men, Kind

  Edward Young (1856). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.189

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