Edward Young - Death Quotes

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Life is the desert, life the solitude;
Death joins us to the great majority.

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And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

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Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;
And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;
Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

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Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,
Hell threatens.

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We see time's furrows on another's brow,
And death intrench'd, preparing his assault;
How few themselves in that just mirror see!

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Death! Great proprietor of all! 'Tis thine
To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

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While man is growing, life is in decrease;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

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We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul. Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

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The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

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This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.

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Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

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