Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem
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Famous Edward Young Quotes
“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”
Source: The Complaint and Consolation; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality: To which is Added, The Force of Religion
“Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”
Source: The complaint: or, Night-thoughts on life, death, and immortality. By E. Young
“Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.”
“Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.”