All Edward Young Quotes
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
Edward Young
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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.
Edward Young
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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
Edward Young
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
Edward Young
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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