Edward Young Quotes
46 Edward Young quotes:
"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth."
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"The man that blushes is not quite a brute."
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"Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy."
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"By night an atheist half believes in God."
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"Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled."
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"Reason is progressive; instinct is complete; swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs."
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"The man that makes a character, makes foes."
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"Procrastination is the thief of time."
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"Wise it is to comprehend the whole."
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"By all means use some time to be alone."
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"Too low they build who build below the skies."
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"They only babble who practise not reflection."
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Reflection Quotes
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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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"All men think all men mortal, but themselves"
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"Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the"
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"Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise."
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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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"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."
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Logic Quotes
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"Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure."
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"Wishing of all employments is the worst."
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