Quote #51

Man wants little, nor that little long.

More from Edward Young

  1. Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
  2. A God all mercy is a God unjust.
  3. 'Tis impious in a good man to be sad
  4. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
  5. Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
  6. Man makes a death which Nature never made.
  7. By night an atheist half believes a God.
  8. Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

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