"How blessings brighten as they take their flight."
"A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs."
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Source: Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.108
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