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"Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!"
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night i. Line 1.
Night thoughts. Night i. Line 1.
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"Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night i. Line 18.
Night thoughts. Night i. Line 18.
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"Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,-- An awful pause! prophetic of her end."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night i. Line 23.
Night thoughts. Night i. Line 23.
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"The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night i. Line 55.
Night thoughts. Night i. Line 55.
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"Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night i. Line 67.
Night thoughts. Night i. Line 67.
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"To waft a feather or to drown a fly."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night i. Line 154.
Night thoughts. Night i. Line 154.
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"Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night i. Line 212.
Night thoughts. Night i. Line 212.
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"Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night i. Line 390.
Night thoughts. Night i. Line 390.
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"Procrastination is the thief of time."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 393.
Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 393.
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"At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night i. Line 417.
Night thoughts. Night i. Line 417.
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"All men think all men mortal but themselves."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night i. Line 424.
Night thoughts. Night i. Line 424.
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"He mourns the dead who lives as they desire."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 24.
Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 24.
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"And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 51.
Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 51.
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"Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 90.
Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 90.
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""I 've lost a day!"--the prince who nobly cried, Had been an emperor without his crown."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 99.
Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 99.
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"Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!"
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 112.
Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 112.
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"The spirit walks of every day deceased."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 180.
Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 180.
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"Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 292.
Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 292.
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"Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 334.
Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 334.
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"'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 376.
Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 376.
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"Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 466.
Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 466.
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"How blessings brighten as they take their flight!"
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 602.
Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 602.
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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."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 633.
Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 633.
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"A death-bed 's a detector of the heart."
Edward Young / Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 641.
Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 641.
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"Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 63.
Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 63.
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"Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!"
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 81.
Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 81.
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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."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 104.
Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 104.
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"Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight,--a naked human heart."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 226.
Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 226.
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"The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 10.
Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 10.
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"Man makes a death which Nature never made."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 15.
Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 15.
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"And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 17.
Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 17.
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"Wishing, of all employments, is the worst."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 71.
Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 71.
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"Man wants but little, nor that little long."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 118.
Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 118.
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"A God all mercy is a God unjust."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 233.
Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 233.
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"'T is impious in a good man to be sad."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 676.
Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 676.
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"A Christian is the highest style of man."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 788.
Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 788.
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"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 843.
Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 843.
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"By night an atheist half believes a God."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 177.
Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 177.
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"Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 600.
Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 600.
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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!"
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 627.
Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 627.
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"Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 661.
Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 661.
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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."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 717.
Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 717.
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"That life is long which answers life's great end."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 773.
Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 773.
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"The man of wisdom is the man of years."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 775.
Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 775.
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"Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 1011.
Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 1011.
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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."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 309.
Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 309.
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"And all may do what has by man been done."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 606.
Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 606.
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"The man that blushes is not quite a brute."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night vii. Line 496.
Night Thoughts. Night vii. Line 496.
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"Too low they build, who build beneath the stars."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 215.
Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 215.
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"Prayer ardent opens heaven."
Edward Young / Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 721.
Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 721.
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