Edward Young - Nature Quotes

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Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause;
An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

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Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!

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In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

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

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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd,
And men talk only to conceal the mind.

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Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.

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We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too.

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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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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

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How distant some of these nocturnal Suns? So distant (says the Sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt, if Beams, set out at Nature's Birth, Are yet arriv'd at this so foreign World...

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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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The course of nature governs all! The course of nature is the heart of God. The miracles thou call'st for, this attest; For say, could nature nature's course control? But miracles apart, who sees Him not?

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