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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly; angels could no more.
-Edward Young, Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 90.
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Age
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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
-Edward Young
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Atheism
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By night an atheist half believes in God.
-Edward Young
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Birth
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
-Edward Young
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Character
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
-Edward Young
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Death
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
-Edward Young
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Example
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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
-Edward Young
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Fear
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
-Edward Young
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Goals
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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
-Edward Young
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Greatness & Great Things
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None think the great unhappy, but the great.
-Edward Young
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Hope
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Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
-Edward Young, Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 71.
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Humility
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We rise in glory, as we sink in pride:
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
-Edward Young, Night Thoughts, night VIII
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Learning
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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
-Edward Young
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Life
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
-Edward Young
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Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
-Edward Young, Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 292.
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
-Edward Young, Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 417
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All men think all men mortal but themselves.
-Edward Young, Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 424.
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Praise
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The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
-Edward Young, Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 51.
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Quotations
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Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.
-Edward Young
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Reflection
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight!
-Edward Young, Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 602.
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Religion
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A God all mercy is a God unjust.
-Edward Young, Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 233.
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Self Respect
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Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, 'That my heart has bled.'
-Edward Young, Night Thoughts. Night IX. l. 497
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Service
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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
-Edward Young
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Shame
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
-Edward Young
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Time
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Procrastination is the thief of time.
note: this line also appears in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield.
-Edward Young, Night Thoughts. (in Night i. Line 393), 1742
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