"The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought."
-Edward Young
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"The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss."
-Edward Young
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"One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame."
-Edward Young
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"The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety."
-Edward Young
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"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."
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"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."
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-Michael Chertoff
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"You are forever alone."
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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
-Jonathan Coe
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"For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe."
-John Buchanan Robinson
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