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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
Edward Young
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
Edward Young
Accept a miracle instead of wit and see two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.
Edward Young
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
Edward Young
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
Edward Young
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
Edward Young
I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be the fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts, and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness.
Edward Young
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
Edward Young
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.
Edward Young
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Edward Young
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Edward Young
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
Neil Young
We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.
Edward Carpenter