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Dichter, Geistlicher, "The Universial Passion", "The Instalment", "Resignation", "The Revenge" (England,1683 - 1765).

Edward Young · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Edward Young wäre heute 341 Jahre, 8 Monate, 30 Tage oder 124.821 Tage alt.

Geboren am 03.07.1683 in Upham
Gestorben am 05.04.1765 in Welwyn
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• At thirty a man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.

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• Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.

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• Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

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• But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

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• By night an atheist half believes a God.

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• Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause.

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• Death! Great proprietor of all! 'Tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

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• Devotion! daughter of astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad.

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• Gold glitters most where virtue shines no more, as stars from absent suns have leave to shine.

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• Hell is the full knowledge of the truth when truth, resisted long, is sworn our foe, and calls eternity to do her right.

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• How glorious, then, appears the mind of man, When in it all the stars, and planets, roll. And what it seems, it is: great objects make Great minds.

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• How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

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• I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

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• If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much to envy in the world.

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• In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

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• Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

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• Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

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• Life is the desert, life the solitude; Death joins us to the great majority.

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• Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered, die.

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• Much learning shows how little mortals know; Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.

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