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Quote by Edward Young
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. – Edward Young

Other quotes by Edward Young

One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, Wars glorious art, and gives immortal fame. – Edward Young

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War
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Edward Young
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The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. – Edward Young

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Future
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Death
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Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. – Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky

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Death

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. – Mercedes McCambridge

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Death

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. – Michelangelo

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Death

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. – P. J. ORourke

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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. – Francis of Assisi

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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. – H. P. Blavatsky

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He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. – Herbert Gold

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Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that Im most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me. – Anne Hathaway

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