Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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Edward Young
Death! Great proprietor of all! 'Tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.
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Edward Young
Devotion! daughter of astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad.
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Edward Young
Gold glitters most where virtue shines no more, as stars from absent suns have leave to shine.
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Edward Young
Hell is the full knowledge of the truth when truth, resisted long, is sworn our foe, and calls eternity to do her right.
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Edward Young
How glorious, then, appears the mind of man, When in it all the stars, and planets, roll. And what it seems, it is: great objects make Great minds.
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Edward Young
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
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Edward Young
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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Edward Young
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much to envy in the world.
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Edward Young
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.
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Edward Young
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
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Edward Young
Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
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Edward Young
Life is the desert, life the solitude; Death joins us to the great majority.
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Edward Young
Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered, die.
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Edward Young
Much learning shows how little mortals know; Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
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Edward Young
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
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Edward Young
Nature revolves, but man advances.
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Edward Young
None think the great unhappy but the great.
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Edward Young
Of plain, sound sense, life's current coin is made.
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Edward Young
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.
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Edward Young
Poor is the friendless master of a world; a world in purchase of a friend is gain.