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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
Edward Young
Blessings
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Edward Young
Death
Life
Majority
Solitude
A Christian is the highest style of man.
Edward Young
Christian
Man
Style
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
Edward Young
Wealth
Learning
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
Edward Young
Death
Fire
Nothing
Waste
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Edward Young
Friendship
Wine
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
Edward Young
Nature
Truth
Friend
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Edward Young
Man
Pleasure
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Edward Young
Time
Procrastination
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
Art
Fame
Law
Murder
Name
By night an atheist half believes in a God.
Edward Young
God
Night
By all means use some time to be alone.
Edward Young
Time
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young
Fool
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
Edward Young
Angels
Grave
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
Edward Young
Men