67 ordspråk av Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Young föddes den July 3rd 1683 och dog den 5 April 1765 - English writer
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 Get up in the morning, catch the bus- you have to sit out there and wait. Then in the winter time, it gets cold and sit out there. It's not worth it in the end. |
| How blessings brighten as they take their flight. |
| I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be the fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts, and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness. |
| Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the |
| In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing. |
| Less base the fear of death than fear of life. |
| Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. |
| Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. |
| Man wants but little; nor that little, long |
| Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. |
| Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. |
| None think the great unhappy, but the great. |
| On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired. |
| One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. |
| Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire |
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Toplists (6 st)
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