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  • The English poet Edward Young said that "Procrastination is the thief of time."

    Connie Bennett: Holiday Health: 10 Tips to Conquer Your Cravings for Candies, Cookies Or Cakes 2009

  • As he pursues this "a relay race of scientific stories," Mr. Holmes provides vivid snapshots of figures from the period, from literary eminences like Lord Byron and Edward Young (the author of the death-obsessed poem "Night Thoughts") to such denizens of the pantheon of science and exploration as Michael Faraday, Edward Jenner and Charles Babbage.

    Nature Was The Teacher By Roger Kimball 2009

  • Pontin opens by quoting 18th century English poet Edward Young: "Born Originals, how comes it to Pass that we die Copies?"

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • Pontin opens by quoting 18th century English poet Edward Young: "Born Originals, how comes it to Pass that we die Copies?"

    SocNets and Sincerity 2008

  • Edward Young wrote, "Our birth is nothing but our death begun."

    'The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead' 2008

  • Edward Young, who watched a piece of steel scaffolding fall from a 48-story office tower in Times Square and crash through the roof of a hotel for the elderly poor, killing 85-year-old resident Thereza Feliconio "Obuchi has all the pizzazz of a cold pizza."

    Perspectives 2008

  • Eventually, she gave it prominent display in her Pitcairn house, Up Tibi, where she settled after marrying Brian, a descendant of mutineer Edward Young.

    Trouble in Paradise William Prochnau and Laura Parker 2008

  • Alexander recognized him as Edward Young, a good-hearted fellow, though of a nervous disposition.

    The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

  • Edward Young was a Reading Councillor and briefly leader of their grouplet.

    Archive 2007-05-13 2007

  • Another English poet, Edward Young, referred to mankind as a

    The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

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