Young
Young
suicide procrastination blood
Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
atheist believe night
By night an atheist half-believes in God.
links deities evolution
Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
literature today weakness
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
death fear angel
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
life sympathy death
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
death fire dying
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
wisdom clouds may
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
poetry literature logic
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
art fear war
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.
years age persons
The person of wisdom is the person of years.
laughter house woe
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
real real-friends wine
Friendship's the wine of life.
procrastination men years
Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. 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.