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• Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night v, Line 661...
• Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
  -- Edward Young...
• Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night v, Line 1011...
• That life is long which answers life's great end.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night v, Line 773...
• The man of wisdom is the man of years.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night v, Line 775...
• Man makes a death which Nature never made.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night iv, Line 15...
• By night an atheist half believes a God.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night v, Line 177...
• A death-bed 's a detector of the heart.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night ii, Line 641...
• We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assaul
  How few themselves in that just mirror see!...