Edward Young: While man is growing, life is in decrease, And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb: Our birth is nothing but our death be

While man is growing, life is in decrease, And cradles rock us nearer to the tom — Edward Young

While man is growing, life is in decrease, And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb: Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

Edward Young

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Quomodo fabula, sic vita: non quam diu, sed quam bene acta sit, refert. As is a — Seneca the Younger
A narrow isthmus betwixt time and eternity. — Edward Young
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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew? — John Milton
Observe, observe perpetually. — Michel de Montaigne
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Entre le joueur du matin et le joueur du soir il existe la différence qui distin — Honoré de Balzac
There are two laws discrete Not reconciled, Law for man, and law for thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking — Voltaire
If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything — Anton Chekhov
No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make — Friedrich Nietzsche