Young
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father son blessing
The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
stars night men
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
dignity ends boast
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
ambition sky lows
They build too low who build beneath the skies.
death men thinking
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
links deities evolution
Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
life sympathy death
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
wisdom clouds may
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
poetry literature logic
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
dream pie long
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done
life thinking years
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
life fear-of-death fears-of-life
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
life keys found
As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.
heart bed death-bed
A death-bed's a detector of the heart.