Quote #52

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

More from Edward Young

  1. 'Tis impious in a good man to be sad
  2. Man wants little, nor that little long.
  3. Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
  4. Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
  5. By night an atheist half believes a God.
  6. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
  7. Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
  8. Man makes a death which Nature never made.

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