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• Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night v, Line 1011...
• By night an atheist half believes a God.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night v, Line 177...
• Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night ii, Line 292...
• All men think all men mortal but themselves.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Night Thoughts, Night i, Line 424...
• The man of wisdom is the man of years.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night v, Line 775...
• That life is long which answers life's great end.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night v, Line 773...
• The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Night Thoughts, Night i, Line 55...
• A death-bed 's a detector of the heart.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night ii, Line 641...
• Man makes a death which Nature never made.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night iv, Line 15...