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.”

“The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.”

“And all may do what has by man been done.”

“Great let me call him, for he conquered me.”

“A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart.”

“Much learning shows how little mortals know;
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.”

“Where Nature’s end of language is declin’d,
And men talk only to conceal the mind.”

“All men think all men mortal but themselves.”

“Man wants little, nor that little long.”

“The house of laughter makes a house of woe.”

“There buds the promise of celestial worth.”

“By night an atheist half believes a God.”

“Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.”

“Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;
And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;
Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.”

“Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.”

“The course of Nature is the art of God.”

“Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself
That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.”

“A friend is worth all hazards we can run.”

“There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired; which render mere Prose-men Infidels to their Divinity.”

“On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.”