English - Poet | July 3, 1683 - April 5, 1765
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Edward Young
LiveMenDieFoolsMayCannot
Truth never was indebted to a lie.
TruthLieNeverIndebted
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
LaughterHouseWoeMakes
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
ManPleasurePains
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
ThyselfDespiseRevere
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
FoolWiseSpeedFortyIndeed
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
MomentFireDeathNothingBirthOur
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
MenThinkThemselvesMortal
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
LifeFearDeathThanLessBase
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
GreatThinkUnhappyNone
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordlings enjoy.
LearningEnjoyWealthKnowLittle
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
LifeGreatDeathSolitudeDesertUs
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