Frases de Edward Young

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“Ninguém excede no ridículo um idiota que segue a moda, como outro que a repele.”

“A mulher desavergonhada é o pior dos homens.”

“Os remorsos suprem a justiça.”

“O hábito do vício atenua, mas nunca afoga inteiramente a voz dos remorsos.”

“Um tolo aos quarenta anos é realmente um tolo.”

“Este mundo é uma profecia de mundos que hão de vir.”

“A God all mercy is a God unjust.”

“When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite.”

“The spirit walks of every day deceased.”

“Procrastination is the thief of time.”

“At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;
In all the magnanimity of thought
Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.”

“And friend received with thumps upon the back.”

“To waft a feather or to drown a fly.”

“A man of pleasure is a man of pains.”

“Too low they build who build beneath the stars.”

“Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.”

“What ardently we wish we soon believe.”

“They that on glorious ancestors enlarge,
Produce their debt instead of their discharge.”

“In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.”

“Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd;
He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.”

“Think naught a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.”

“How blessings brighten as they take their flight!”

“The man that makes a character makes foes.”

“Accept a miracle instead of wit,—
See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.”

“They only babble who practise not reflection.”

“Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause;
An awful pause! prophetic of her end.”

“Tomorrow is a satire on today,
And shows its weakness.”

“He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.”

“The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.”

“And waste their music on the savage race.”

“The blood will follow where the knife is driven,
The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.”

“The man of wisdom is the man of years.”

“Unlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.”

“That life is long which answers life's great end.”

“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”