A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
About Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts, a series of philosophical writings in blank verse, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements. It was one of the most popular poems of the century, influencing Goethe and Edmund Burke, among many others, with its notable illustrations by William Blake.
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
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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.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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By all means use some time to be alone.
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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By night an atheist half believes in a God.
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
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A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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Procrastination is the thief of time.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
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Too low they build who build below the skies.
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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
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Wishing of all employments is the worst.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
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The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
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Friendship’s the wine of life: but friendship new… is neither strong nor pure.
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Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
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All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
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They only babble who practise not reflection.
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A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
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All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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An angel’s arm can’t snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can’t confine me there.
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Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
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