That life is long which answers life's great end.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
- Night Thoughts, Night v, Line 773
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
- Night Thoughts, Night v, Line 773
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and Nature made a pause,-- An awful pause! prophetic... - By night an atheist half believes a God.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
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Night Thoughts, Night v, Line... - Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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Night Thoughts, Night v, Line... - The man of wisdom is the man of years.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
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Night Thoughts, Night v, Line... - Man wants but little, nor that little long.
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Night Thoughts, Night iv, Line... - Man makes a death which Nature never made.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
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Night Thoughts, Night iv, Line... - Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,
She sparkled,
was exhal'd and went to heaven. -- Edward Young (1684... - Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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The AI Hackers... - Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,
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