Edward Young - Man Quotes

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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

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Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

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Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

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Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

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Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

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The soul of man was made to walk the skies.

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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

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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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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

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This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.

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Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;
In all the magnanimity of thought
Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.

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Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!

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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

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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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Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself
Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

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The chamber where the good man meets his fate
Is privileg'd beyond the common walk
Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

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On reason build resolve,
that column of true majesty in man.

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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;
And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.

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The man that makes a character makes foes.

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'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,—
Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.

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