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Edward Young

Birthday: July 03, 1683
Deathday: April 05, 1765
Category: English Poet
Type: Poet
National: English

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By all means use some time to be alone....

By night an atheist half believes in a God....

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither...

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life....

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us...

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die....

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None think the great unhappy, but the great....

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Read nature; nature is a friend to truth....

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They only babble who practise not reflection....

Those who build beneath the stars build too low....

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