“The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.”
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Famous Edward Young Quotes
“Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.”
“A friend is worth all hazards we can run.”
“A man of pleasure is a man of pains.”
“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”
“The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done”
“Truth never was indebted to a lie”
“Wishing of all employments is the worst”
“The man that blushes is not quite a brute.”
“Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.”
“How blessings brighten as they take their flight.”
“Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.”
“A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”
“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.”
